AK47

MR DE KOCK: On our side I decided to take AK47 guns with, we also had handgrenades of communist or east-block origin. General van Rensburg's request however was that we use Scorpion machine pistols because they were standard weapons which were used by the PAC particularly, so that it would create ...

... 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 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.

i) Possession of an AK47 rifle;

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

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.

MR XULU: Yes, I gave them one AK47.

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 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

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 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 Kgase, I noticed that in your application form at page 52 of the bundle, in reply to the question where you are asked to state the nature and the particulars of the offences in respect of which you are applying, you make mention of AK47s. Was there any incident in which you had to use an AK47?

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 STRYDOM: Do you know an AK47 rifle?

... 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 ...