AK47

MR NOSENGA: An AK47.

MR PIENAAR: Col de Kock immediately ran to the vehicle. I followed him, so did the other members. Mr Theron had a light which followed afterwards, he didn't shine the light from the beginning. The front door of the kombi went open and a person emerged with an AK47 gun in his hands.

... and that would have to be of Russian or Eastern Block origin. I think that we used between 36 and 37 AKM's, that is another version of the AK47, because the ANC was exclusively using AKM's with regard to their internal operations. The landmines and the ammunition also had to be checked ...

MR BOOYENS: Mr de Kock, if someone would be shot at very close range with an AK47, would there be serious damage to the person?

MR GOOSEN: This time a Skyline motor vehicle was used - Lieut Hechter came there with a Skyline vehicle, he removed three AK47 rifles from the boot, as well as a mellow-yellow bomb.

MR PIENAAR: Yes, Chairperson, it was very quick. There were four men in the kombi, they were all fatally shot, an AK47 was found with them, with an extra magazine. I secured all these weapons personally because they were all cocked. And in two carry bags which were also in the kombi, I found two ...

... gunshot". And then we investigated, "where is the gun?". He said, "I have it, it is right in my house and I dug and hid it there". That was an AK47 gun with its ammunitions. It is then that Mr Ravele showed us where he shot into the air. ...

... Bonga pointed us the place that was their boundary, and there, beyond that particular crossing line was the IFP territory. I was armed with an AK47 ...

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

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?

... as modified M26 handgrenades.  These were furnished directly to IFP leaders in Ulundi, Natal.  These consignments included approximately 6 to 8 AK47 assault rifles and ammunition as well as pistols.  On the instructions of Applicant's superiors, the supply of arms and ammunition was ...

"... below the body of the black man there was an AK47",

... was, during 1993-1994, a member of the African National Congress in Mozambique. He participated in activities amounting to unlawful possession of AK47 machine guns; unlawful possession of ammunition; unlawful possession of hand grenades; unlawful possession of firearms and unlawful possession ...

MR LAX: In this attack, we have been told there were two AK47's, 3 AK47's, two home-made firearms and a pump-gun, correct?

MR SHICEKA: R4, one R5, one AK47.

Mr De Kock further states, which supports Mr Nofomela's allegation that before they left for Durban he arranged that an AK47 attack weapon should be drawn with the intention of using in the operation in Durban. He says that the acquisition of this AK47 was with official permission, it went ...

... 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 SIBEKO: The AK47 that you were using, what happened to it, Sir? That is the AK47 that you used at Mshayazafe and at Buthelezi.

MR ALBERTS: To the best of my knowledge Mr Chairman, not 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.