AK47

"I threw a burning tyre in one of the houses. I was in Damara Quonquo's group. He had an AK47..."

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.

i) Possession of an AK47 rifle;

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 PRINSLOO: No, not the AK47. The AK applied to the third applicant.

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

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.

TRANSPORTATION OF AK47 ASSAULT RIFLES TO HARRISMITH

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.

... 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 ...

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.

MR XULU: Yes, I gave them one AK47.

MR BERGER: That night there were people armed with AK47's, shotguns, other rifles, is that correct?

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.

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

... 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 ...

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

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

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?