AK47

CHAIRPERSON: And did you have an AK47 or did you have a pistol? What sort of firearm?

MR P DE CASTRO: Okay, sorry. And I saw some men. One which was carrying an R, it looked like an R4, an AK47 and he had a briefcase in the other arm at the same time.

MR LAX: And whether he was killed in Boputhatswana or not, it would have been a matter or concern that here is another policeman murdered, AK47 are used, all that information was known.

They asked me as to what they had used. I just mentioned all these AK47, whatever came to my head. I said no, they have hidden those firearms and they realised that I was laying. They just wanted - before you could just extract this communism in your head, we are not going to leave you.

MR PAPIER: Yes. Thank you Judge. In particular and specifically I refer this Honourable Commission to the evidence of Sidney Hendricks who testified that he was in possession of a survival kit which included an AK47.

MR TAIT: The deduction that I made Chairperson, was that it was AK47 rifles.

On the second occasion the applicant and Nortje handed AK47 rifles to a man who the applicant believed to be Temba Khoza. The latter hid the weapons in a hole on the ground floor of the United Towers Building in Johannesburg.

TRANSPORTATION OF AK47 ASSAULT RIFLES TO HARRISMITH

... with us in the Mxenge murder, and subsequently Colonel Gene de Kock was found guilty of being involved in his murder in some way or another. AK47 shells were found on the scene to again implicate the ANC. For instance a burial was organised at Vlakplaas for him, and it was to all and ...

... put on my clothes, off, and put them down. I ended up being naked. At that stage, I think, I had lost my mind. I was a bit confused. There were AK47's explosions all over. The whole area was dark. We just could only hear these AK47's and Thokoza was going to be an attack. They use to ...

... rights. The only offence that Mr Gaelatse committed and for which he seeks amnesty was that from approximately the middle of 1993 he possessed an AK47 weapon and bullets. This was possessed, he was one of the commanders of the Thokoza/Beirut section, he was self defence unit, he never incited ...

... He then briefed us on the operation that was to be carried out. The car to be used was already parked in the yard. He then gave each of us an AK47 and also pistols. The operation depended on the signal from our commander's source. That means after arriving at the target place we were to ...

MR SIBEKO: Were you involved - let me put it like this, did you at any stage during this violence carry a weapon, be it a Scorpion or an AK47, shoot anybody?

As ek dit reg het, het hy destyds aan my gemeld dat hy was geroof deur mense met AK47’s. En ek dink ek het dit op die ingewing van die oomblik het ek dit - die foto’s aan hom getoon.

... was already known to the Security Branch that the ANC had agents in the Security Branch in Durban, during a time when acts of terrorism, including AK47 guns and handgrenades were still prevalent. The suspicion of moles or informers in the Durban Security Branch, was then also confirmed by Mr ...

Having carefully considered the matter, we are satisfied that the application complies with all of the requirements of the Act. Amnesty is accordingly GRANTED to Applicant for the unlawful possession of an AK47 assault rifle and ammunition on or about 19 September 1993 at or near Thokoza, Gauteng.

On this list of the scale of remuneration, there would be stipulations such as bringing in an AK47, would given an extra R800-00, for a missile, it was R500-00, for ammunition, per 50, would be R50-00. For the arrest, the wounding or the taking in of an ANC or PAC terrorist an amount of R2 000-00 ...

MR VAN ZWEEL: Those persons were armed with AK47 rifles and they all had magazines, the weapons were cocked. Hand grenades were also found, two.

1. Unlawful possession of firearms, including an AK47 rifle, two Uzzi submachine guns and a R4 rifle;

CAPT. HECHTER: I remember that I went with an AK47 armed with an AK47 or pickaxe handles.