AK47

... for that crime as well, and then for what it is worth Mr Chairman, I am not sure whether they in fact committed a crime by being in possession of AK47s, but we would also seek amnesty for possibly the illegal possession of two AK47 rifles, with ammunition. ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 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.

driving us. We parked two streets away from the stadium. Muhlava remained in the car. The four of us went to the stadium. We were armed with two AK47 rifles, two pistols and about twelve hand grenades, F1's and RGD 5's. James Sililo and Mathousan took positions and threw the hand grenades. ...

MR MBATHA: Domorotonga used his AK47 firing the shots.

... 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 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.

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 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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...