AK47

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

... had a situation, let's just take an example for instance, a commander gives an attack, he says "look, you must go and assassinate X" gives him an AK47 and issues the order. X then goes - I mean the operative goes with a rifle and assassinates X and three other people who happen to be sitting ...

(c) (Second applicant is granted amnesty for the offences of having been in unlawful possession of an AK47 assault rifle and an R1 rifle, a 12 bore shotgun and the possession of ammunition for the aforesaid rifles and shotgun.)

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

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.

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.

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.

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

i) Possession of an AK47 rifle;

... of ammunition. We heard talk of people making their own home made firearms and the only ammunition you have primarily spoken about, have been AK47 ammunition. I wondered whether as part of the ordinance, efforts were made to obtain for example most home made firearms would use shotgun ...

... that the group of attackers be allowed to move through the township. On their journey through the township, the group fired at residents with AK47 rifles. A young boy was killed and several people injured. Applicant fled from the attackers as he was unarmed. He collected some ...

We got into the vehicle. We were armed with weapons. We had an AK47, which was given to Wilson Mtetwa and I was given a 9mm pistol".

... 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 ...

... are clear indicia(?) of surrounding circumstances, for instance the evidence of the other co-applicants that Hashe disclosed the existence of an AK47 at his sister's house. Now that, and I make the submission that if we assume that these people were, the victims were fearless of the security ...

MR MADONDO: An AK47 rifle.

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.

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