AK47

MR MOPEDI: So you want to tell this hearing that at no stage did you carry a firearm, an AK47?

MS NHLAYISI: Were you at any stage issued with an AK47 during the time you were an SDU member?

... were deployed in the area by the director of special operations Sipho Bulalani Kloma who was also deputy director of operations. I was armed with AK47 and I do not remember exactly what type of weapons others were armed with, whether AK47 or R4 or R5 rifles. We had two targets on the day in ...

MR MBOKANE: I had a .38 revolver, Gushu had an AK47 with.

MR LEGODI: After we were given that order we sat down to plan about what to use and the road we should take. We made a decision that we should take an AK47 and a hand-grenade, and one AK47. We went to that particular house.

... extracts from the inquest findings of Mr Justice Levy, Anton’s death was attributed to being shot seven times on various parts of his body with an AK47 rifle and a final shot through the head with a different calibre ...

MR DLAMINI: Yes that is correct. We left from Mrs Mbuyazi's house and we were armed with an assortment of guns, G3's AK47's, shotguns and we were proceeding to J1. The van left us at J1 and then left. Anybody who was around the area or any house that had its lights on was attacked. We attacked ...

... in order to protect and for the upkeep of the credibility of Mr Lengene, he told you that first of all he gave him a Russian firearms, an AK47, handgrenades to go and show these people. ...

... by Mr Lubane, because he wanted to start a unit in Pretoria, around Pretoria district to train youth members for military training in the use of AK47's and explosives. Then he told me that he would train me so that I would be able to train others this ...

... to me against a stone. I was tossed aside, I was not injured, but I went into the room and shot the person as he was still standing next to his AK47. ...

... him. He took me to Sakonja and when we arrived there at a certain house, I cannot exactly remember where it is, he showed me the guns, they were AK47's, quite a lot of them. And there was ammunition as well. We left and returned to Unit 4. I went back to work. When I left work later on I ...

... and the 2nd applicant submitted a second completed application form for amnesty. In such forms they both state that the 2nd applicant received the AK47 from Magwaza, that they were both present when the two groups confronted each other and that they fired at the ANC group as they believed they ...

... lê is dit in die middel van die kruising NY1 voor ons af en na regs en links NY111. Die bos wat uit - of van u regterkant dan van NY111 is, die AK47 wat deur hierdie swartman gebruik word, is van die opvoukolf tipe en baie duidelik van die beserings [onduidelik] die swart man het dieselfde ...

... operation that ran over some time and the deceased pressed us into a corner where at some stage we had to supply them with arms, handgrenades, AK47 and limpet mines that we had to show to them and after I borrowed the people from Mr de Kock, I decided to, specifically ...(indistinct) who is ...

In all the circumstances of the case, we are satisfied that there was no need for launching the application inasmuch as the Applicant had committed no offence in regard to the possession of the AK47 rifle in question.

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.

4. Unlawful possession of firearms being an R4 rifle, R5 rifle, a AK47 rifle and 2 R PG 7 rocket launchers.

MR LOWIES: You shot at them and they died and you shot at them with an AK47?

MR MASOKA: As a member of the Self Defence Unit my duty was to patrol around the section, carry around my weapon, AK47 and inspect and monitor the situation around our section, and also monitor other sections.

... But I think we must just remember that on that night 38 people were killed and 40 were injured when a group of men indiscriminately sprayed AK47 gunfire at the vigil that was organised for Christopher. Christopher himself was an ANC member and a member of the Sebokeng Crime Prevention ...