AK47

MR PLAATJIES: Sometimes it was AK47's.

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.

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.

... 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 ...

MR NGOBESE: I heard that they had found AK47 and hand- grenades, I don't know how many.

It must also believe that prison warders would train a man with an atrocious criminal record in the handling of AK47's, R1 rifles and various assault weapons, it must believe that the AWB will use somebody to assassinate Mr Phosa who has never even seen Mr Phosa, who does not even know from his ...

... him that we were going to do Molope this evening, Moreki is - Makhura is observing the house. And then we also brought along Makhura's weapon, an AK47. ...

... regarded a person of 18 years old as a young child. And may I say, with respect, Mr Chairperson, that a young child of eight years old with an AK47 in his hands will kill you just as dead as a 50 year-old person. And in fact all over the world armies are made up of persons between the ages ...

... normally be able to cut off the access of attackers into the township. First Applicant was armed with a 9mm pistol and Second Applicant with an AK47 assault rifle. The other members of the SDU were also armed. They concealed themselves and after a short while they noticed two minibus ...

... to drink and sprinkle their clothes and told them that they were to use Tswi's Ford to conduct the attack. The weapons they were handed included AK47s as well as guns. He thinks he personally was handed an AK47 (At the trial he pleaded guilty to the possession of a .38 ...

... when I started to loosen myself and I don't know what to say, fortunately or unfortunately, but I think it was fortunate for me that there was an AK47 at the back of a bakkie which was wrapped in a canvass. Then I took out that AK47 and I fired shots to both people who were transporting me and ...

that's with all due respect not entirely correct. You'll remember that the evidence was that he found these six people sleeping at the fountain with AK47's next to them. They then left there Mr Chairman, so there was no doubt in his, there couldn't have been doubt in his mind that they were armed ...

MR DU PLESSIS: There was a pile of stones packed next to the road so that the askari could see where he was supposed to stop. I was armed with an AK47 silenced gun. We brought the weapons that we were going to use with us from Vlakplaas. All of us were placed at one side of the road among the ...

I had an AK47 in my room and I went to fetch that AK47, and I peeped through the widow at the side facing the dam. I realised that they were lighting torches and then I shot towards that light and I told Kuntakana to ran with me. We ran outside together with Kuntakana and we fled.

It is clear even in this operation, they only had one firearm which was an AK47 and grenade and knife. So it's clear Mr Chairman, that the actions of the applicants were indeed associated with certain political objectives and that of continuing the armed struggle on behalf of their organisation ...

... regardless of your background and your training. And here we had a case where it wasn't a question of two men confronting each other, one with an AK47 and one with an R4 and seeing who would be the winner in the end. Brigadier Schoon, if he had been there, may have had other advice, ...

2.3 1 x AK47 rifle with ammunition.