AK47

MR ZWANE: AK47 rifles, Scorpion sub-machine pistols.

14 Unlawful possession of AK47 ammunition.

MR MARHINQI: AK47 rifles.

CHAIRPERSON: Carry on. You've told us now that you kept the weapons in the car. The weapons I think were AK47 assault rifles and Stechkin machine gun and ammunition in sealed containers?

One evening, I think it was July or August, I am not quite certain, we went through to Louis Trichardt. We were armed with an AK47 which White had acquired, his R1 and I think also a petrol bomb which Jurgen Grobler had with him. When we arrived on the scene it was about 12 o'clock at night, I ...

CHAIRPERSON: Were you trained in the use of firearms such as AK47's and pistols and maybe even hand grenades?

and the other information from the physical informer entailed that handling and training of handgrenades and other crash course training for example AK47 courses by Mahlangu, to some of his recruits in ...

... to Duli. Nortje says they had hired a kombi vehicle from Avis for the delivery of the arms and when Duli requested to be supplied with four (4) AK47 rifles and sixteen (16) magazines it was agreed that these could neither be given to him in the premises of the hotel nor anywhere in the East ...

... comrade Fihla wereThabo and Max.  We travelled from Harare to Bulowayo by train and we were inpossession of various arms and ammunition, including AK47's, Tokarev pistols,Chinese stick grenades, etc.  From Bulowayo to the borders of Botswana, we travelledon a bakkie.  We crossed the borders on ...

Therefore the moment when we left Mr Nqobo's house, I remembered that we were told that if they refused, we were supposed to kill them, therefore I took the gun from Simon. It was an AK47 which had a spear in front.

MR LABUSCHAGNE: Yes, I cannot specifically say if it was all that was found in the back of the bakkie, but I remember the rucksacks, there was an AK47, yes I would say that would be the weapons that we found.

MR SCHOON: Sir, I said over the sights of an AK47.

At that stage we dispersed. One of our members was shot by the police. I threw away the AK47 and rushed back to the area. That is the story.

... and in paragraph, the fourth paragraph it is quite evident that he was trained as a member of MK and he was then trained to use explosives and AK47's, and that supports the information which you had and which the Security Branch was then investigating, is that not ...

MR LAX: Did he not also refer to the AK47?

MR RADEBE: I am referring to weapons such as AK47's, hand grenades, pistols like Macarov, Tokarev, Stechin.

The Applicant is therefore GRANTED amnesty in respect of the unlawful possession of an AK47 rifle with sixteen rounds of ammunition and a revolver with four rounds of ammunition at 82 Siluma View, Katlehong on or about 13 January 1991.

MR DLAMINI: Like and AK47 is not a South African make.

MR MASANGO: And AK47.

MR GOUWS: Oosthuizen and myself were contacted by Captain Hechter. I cannot recall if we met with him at his office or where we met, but the end of the story was that we went to the Bron. It was a holiday resort. There was an AK47 handed to me.