AK47

5. the unlawful possession of an AK47 rifle during the period August 1991 to June 1992;

MR NHLAPHO: An AK47.

Were you involved in attacks or defensive actions where you carried an AK47 or any form of weapon which you used against the opposition?

... murders and attacks on various people. You also mentioned that during the course of the attacks, you used on occasions a Makaroff pistol and AK47 rifles and purchased ammunition. Do you recall ...

... 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.

MR MBATHA: Domorotonga used his AK47 firing the shots.

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 ...

... unable to locate that annexure, but it simply relates to a fairly important incident of harassment relating to the planting, alleged planting of an AK47, on the premises of the applicant. My attorney says that the information contained in there was personally conveyed to him and he is prepared ...

MR YAMILE: You see they would dismantle an AK47 and then they would assemble it again. Then I looked and then I called the Committee, I said no, this doesn't look right. They didn't ask anything, they were just continuing.

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.

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.

... Chairperson, when it appeared that there was no more life within the vehicle, Sgt Holtzhausen opened the sliding door of the vehicle. He had an AK47 gun and he fired shots between the front seats of the minibus. I saw two persons lying in the back of the vehicle and one on the front driver's ...

MS VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: Before you continue, this firearm that you used, is it correct that that was an AK47 rifle?

MR BERGER: Were they both armed with AK47's?

MR MAHLANGU: I was carrying an AK47.

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

... with a view to disarming them of their weapons. Later that night, he accompanied by DK, Shona and Chicken Licken armed with R4 rifles and an AK47 went to the station. They came to a room which they believed was occupied by policemen. The door of the room was closed. Shiceka and DK ...

MR MATSHAYA: I was carrying an AK47 rifle.

We are satisfied that they have indeed complied with the requirements of the Act and in the result amnesty is GRANTED in respect of the offence of robbery to all the applicants and also for the offence of unlawful possession of the AK47 and handgrenade to Kubukeli.