AK47

MR LOWIES: That's not the question, the question is; senior people would get preference to the AK47's, in terms of custom, do you agree?

They were killed by Inkatha members. Vusi told me that he has an AK47 with him. At that time, I was receiving money from SACR, that was about R800-00 or at times they would give me R1 200-00.

Is there any particular weapon on which, you know, specific emphasis was placed or not? --- There were two firearms which had much emphasis. These were the ones that we were supposed to use in most cases. It was the G3 rifle which was Czechoslovakian made and an AK47.

ADV PRIOR: In paragraph 14 you said that Small Baby was armed with an AK47, is that correct?

During the attack however, I was armed with an AK47 rifle which (indistinct). It was given to me by Soli and I returned it to him immediately after the attack. Only two grenades were thrown during the attack and no shots were fired.

MR MBANDAZAYO: Let me take you step by step. He told the Committee that on your arrival there, you put an AK47 in the vehicle which was there, is that correct?

a tree, he threw petrol in the vehicle. I omitted to say that in order to make the whole situation look realistic, we also had a limpet mine and an AK47 which we placed in the vehicle. He then set the vehicle ...

MR MAKOMA: Yes, I got an AK47.

MR HUGO: You now heard that Mr de Kock testified that he heard that the working part of the AK47 was cocked - I'm not technically correct now, but the AK47s were cocked, AK47s, that's actually the relevant point. Did you hear anything like that?

... Applicant argued that he had not killed any specific person whom he could identify. He had, however, at various times, used either his pistol, AK47 or the R4 rifle, amongst other weapons, wither offensively in an effort to prevent further attacks on the members of his community, or ...

... a friend to Zinzi Mandela, that was Sitambiso and a certain MK guy visited the room while we were sitting there and he was in the possession of an AK47, and we sat with the guy and he taught me the use of an AK47 and at a later stage, at that stage I was in possession of a Scorpio sub-machine ...

in a car immediately. He left and I said "Congress look, maybe Joe realised that there was something wrong, let me wait here on this corner with an AK47, so that I can see what is happening, perhaps there were police around". He took a turn, he was very fast because after taking that corner, I ...

... at the moment, and there between me, Ernest Ramadite, George Mathe and Mensday, we went somewhere towards Mafikeng where we received training of AK47's, hand grenade and limpet ...

... later I wanted to know from Hechter how the action had gone and he told me that van Vuuren had hit a window of a house out with the barrel of an AK47 gun and that he, Hechter, had thrown the bomb through the hole, upon which they had run away. We then drove back to Pretoria. I cannot say with ...

MR KHANYILE: We were armed with AK47 rifles. I was carrying an HMC.

MR NHLAPO: It was an AK47.

We followed the van in a BMW until it came to a stop next to a house in Meadowlands. Then we - as soon as it came to a stop then we drove next to it, we opened fire with AK47 rifles. The Commander had a Makarov pistol with him as well. Then we drove away. We went back to the base.

MR LESHOMO: I do not recall, it was one AK and 9mms, I don't know how many of them were there, and the 3.8s. I do not recall how many of them, but among the weapons there was an AK47, the 9mms and the 3.8.

MR MOTATA: Just explain to us, we know from the evidence we have heard that operators used to carry guns and those would be issued by the Commander Regional or Central, but they used to carry guns and in this respect AK47's, is that so?

MR LAMEY: One of the applicants, I think it is Mr Britz, states that practise shots were fired with the AK47, can you recall this?