AK47

... where I discovered Jeffrey's corpse. I went to see Colonel du Toit who was the then commander. When I got to him I saw that they had put an AK47 on Jeffrey and said that he was shot because he was shooting at them and they pointed to this AK47 as the gun that he had used against the ...

... at me, everybody in the team, they said don't worry it happened to all of us the first time, but you'll get used to it. From then on I carried an AK47 not an R1 because I knew that maybe it wouldn't jam the next ...

MR MALAN: But you did say yesterday that you saw Tusanang with an AK47 at Blanko's house when you were woken up.

... decided to wait for it at the robots of Orlando, Diepkloof and I was armed with R4 and the other person, I have forgotten his name, was carrying an ...

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

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

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 MASANGO: And AK47.

... 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 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.

That was simply matters where the then Riot Unit, etc, may have arrested somebody with an AK47 or a handgrenade or an unlicensed firearm and it may have been political, like a Makarov or a Tokarev and we would then take over that docket, it wouldn't be handled by the normal CID's at the stations. ...

MR MBELO: With an AK47 and we were told that morning that those guys are well armed and they are going to attack a certain mini-bus.

... This was in regard to, amongst others, the collection of training material and the information was confirmed by other information that it was AK47 rifles and hand grenades and there was a further letter where it was mentioned that people from Botswana would visit him and these persons would ...

... before you knew of such an order although in honesty, Brigadier Loots told you that he did in fact see one. So you must assume that there was an AK47. And again, if that is so we are not able to say that Venter was entirely wrong in perhaps making an assumption that there was an order, ...

did you also have specific information or let me put it this way, did you have knowledge of information that the smuggling networks for arms such as AK47's and other arms from Mozambique found their way to the liberation movements of that time and that this was also in the combating of the unrest ...

... to use a firearm and I told him that I was not able to because I had never handled a firearm before. He asked me whether I knew how to handle an AK47. I told him that I'd never seen an AK. And he asked me as to whether I had a desire to see or handle it. I agreed with him and said I wanted ...

MR NDWANGU: My soldiers had AK47 rifles, we shot at them and we made them to jump the fire that they made. Some of them did not manage to get out of the fire, they died in that fire. Some of them got scattered and others came straight to our direction.

They said they are not sure what is going on, but somebody must be dead at a certain spot where a van was parked. On that day I had an AK47, which I had exchanged with that pistol which I had removed from the coloured man.

The committee is satisfied that he has complied with the requirements of the Act and he is therefore GRANTED amnesty in respect of the unlawful possession of an AK47 rifle and ammunition committed on or about the 20 April 1994 at Thokoza.

... a name. Skosana referred to me - said I was a dog and he wanted to get something to hit me with. When the other one opened his jacket I saw an AK47. I ran ...