AK47

CHAIRPERSON: Sorry Mr Tloubatla. What kind of weapon did you shoot your victim with, was it a pistol or a revolver or an AK47?

ADV SANDI: When you convened those meetings, did you say to those who attended the meetings, we should go and get arms, ammunition, AK47's, etc at such a place? Did you make such suggestions?

... but if I have got to compare the injury and the total destruction of the projectile, for instance with, I also did a comparison with a AK47, then I would say no he was not struck by a AK47 bullet. He was struck by a 5,56 R4 bullet. Further than that, I cannot assist in this ...

I did my training and showed the others and then I stood watching the others and while standing there I would wonder a bit and I found a firearm, an AK47 which was lying there. I, we were not allowed to carry firearms, we were carrying batons at the time. So I saw a firearm lying in the grass ...

"A reliable source, during the first week of December 1985, saw an unknown number of AK47 rifles and an unknown number of round objects, supposedly landmines in the possession of an ANC terrorist. The terrorist indicated that he and three cohorts, by Christmas of 1985, would go to Bloemfontein to ...

MR RADEBE: That there was a person who has been killed. There was a person who was murdered with AK47, in the direction of Oskraal, in a certain farm. I think his name was mentioned. His bag was left in my car, then I hid that suitcase, but there was no firearm or ID or anything.

... which was handed over to the Special Investigative Unit of the Attorney General of the Western Transvaal which proved that there were numerous AK47 rifles for which there was no accounting, during this time AK47 rifles were smuggled into the RSA via Mozambique. This also fortified the ...

MR MBHELE: I did not even see one bullet. I heard that they had AK, but although he said they had KK, but I could tell that those were AK, and I hate the sight of AK47 and I was so sure that when I get there I will see such, but I did not.

Was this matter reported to the police? --- Police came. My son, my elder son, was shot by an AK47 and he was admitted in hospital. For nine months he stayed there. His name is Petros. Was he there? --- Yes, he was in the church, and he got injured. He didn't die, he is just limping now.

MR BRITZ: It was an AK47 with a silencer and at some or other place where there was an embankment, we tested it to see if it was operating.

I did go and pick up weapons from Col Drury, it was only a few AK47's with a fold-up butt, AKM, the ANC only used AKM, they did not use the normal AK47's. The rest of the AK's, we got from Vlakplaas' own storage. We also ensured that it was Russian ammunition. For each weapon we gave two or ...

MR SHANGE: Master gave us the guns. I personally was armed with a pump-gun, Jabulani Ncokwane had an AK47, Jomo also had an AK, Sonny Ngcobo as well, Jabulani Cele had a handgrenade, Senzo Shange had a home-made gun.

1. The unlawful possession of firearms, on 7,62 x 39 calibre AK47.

MR COETZEE: We found two AK47 rifles sealed in plastic bags, six magazines, a multitude of mini-limpet mines, detonators, handgrenades, RDG5 and F1, which were hidden in the vehicle.

... But didn't that even jeopardise the safety and the lives of your operatives if Opperman knew that there was going to be ten MK members armed with AK47 rifles, F1 hand-grenades, whatever it might be? He doesn't tell you, he says "Cloete, get these people ready to penetrate the house, you're ...

has been led that the applicants before the Committee are very unsophisticated people, even their struggle was not one with hand grenades, bombs and AK47's. That should be noted and even in the application forms, they didn't have the opportunity of the application forms being filled by the ...

... him to be ready to go on an operation. Taylor, Vorster and Du Preez then met at the farm. Taylor explained the operation to them and handed two AK47 automatic assault rifles to Du ...

"A war against the ANC. The assassination of political leaders was high on their agenda. De Kock had several meetings with Viljoen and also supplied 60 AK47’s to Riaan van Rensburg"

... was over.  He then went back to fetch them.  He had used a police kombi with false registration letters and numbers.  They were armed with AK47 machine guns with silencers.  The vehicle had been modified and fitted with invisible panels where the arms were hidden.  Flores confirms ...

MR MAMETSE: One of the objectives was to acquire handguns, short guns because the material that we had mostly consisted of AK47 and there was a need to have a short gun for personal protection, among other reasons.