AK47

... 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 ...

... you heard that the IFP were going to this rally and you had decided to wait for them to return. He went on to say that he and you took two AK47's, you went to Khumalo Street and waited for these IFP members to come back. When the first minibus came back, you ignored it, when the second ...

are you going to catch this man here?" Those who ran away might have had firearms, because they were wearing these coats, so Mulabise, who had the AK47, forgive me for being fast, Mulabise, as we called him Mushegas, shot at this person. This guy was alone. We could not use all our AK's, ...

... with the police, malicious injury to property in respect of a police R5 rifle, unlawful possession of firearms, being an R4 rifle, an R5 rifle, an AK47 rifle, RPG7 rocket and two RPG7 rocket launchers which were used in the attack on the depot and in the shoot-out with the police, ...

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

When I looked further, I saw him and I knew that this was the person that we were told about. We were told to kill. I did not waste time, I went to Mr Masidane's place where the AK47 was. The gentleman's surname is Masidane, I went to his place to fetch the AK47.

CHAIRPERSON: Before you do so, you made reference to a telephone call having been received from Mr Wehrmann about the AK47.

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?

... 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 ...

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?

MR MATHE: Firstly, my first crash course was at Atteridgeville. It was mainly on the use of a pistol and AK47.

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.

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

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?

told while we were in the stadium, that there are firearms, those who want to use them, can come and collect them. I was one of those who wanted an AK47 and because the number was small, the number of firearms was not enough I found that they had already finished all the AK47's, so I was armed ...

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

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 ...

... 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 ...

After six weeks we started advanced training. This went on for about three months. This is where we were taught how to use AK47 rifles, RPD's, RPK's and light machine guns, Bazuka's, explosives. We were also taught rural guerrilla warfare, urban guerrilla warfare.

... get into the shop and see if John was inside. When I realised that John was not inside I went back to the spot where I was to get the firearm, the AK47. I came back and when I came back he was still standing in front of John's shop. I told myself that there's nothing else that he was there ...