AK47

MR BARNARD: After the incident, as I could see my actions there, I did not become involved with the vehicle, I remained back from the vehicle and if I recall correctly, Warrant Officer Pienaar searched through the vehicles and AK47 rifles and handgrenades were found in the vehicles.

MR VISSER: AK47 guns?

MR SIBEKO: Now let us get this clear. Your involvement in these incidents, were you also carrying a firearm or an AK47 and did you at any stage pull the trigger to shoot at anybody?

MR GOUWS: There was an AK47.

... Mr Modipane's home. What I recall is that I threw a hand grenade into the house and the others surrounded the house and they fired shots from AK47 rifles. I still remember vehicles that were used in that attack, their registration numbers were MWD776T, that car was used by Adj Walters from ...

MR HATTINGH: At the trial he testified that he shot Mr Sikhakhane with an AK47 that was fitted with a silencer.

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 ...

On the following day we went to see someone by the name of Kaili Hlembatha. He then told us that he couldn't give us an AK47, but he would be able to assist us by giving us a 303. He didn't give this to us on the same day. We went back to the place or the house where we arrived.

MR PRIOR: Did you receive training in the use of automatic weapons like the R5, R4 rifle, AK47?

AK47 rifles were used to give an impression that the attackers were members of the ANC or PAC's military wing.

the day I would want to summarise this thing because we think as a community of Piet Retief. Okay. Then Mr Nkosi was killed at one o'clock with an AK47 inside his yard. Up to to date nobody was arrested and up to to date nobody knows who shot Mr Nkosi. The situation went worse. Before the end ...

... that it was not just youth or UDF, but that underground structures and they said that the MK were also involved and that people had weapons and AK47's. Do you want to respond to any of ...

The applicant is GRANTED amnesty for the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, an AK47 plus 200 rounds of ammunition and 5 steclikin pistols on the 7th of August 1991 in Sebokeng which he held on behalf of the SDU’s in Sebokeng in his capacity as chairperson of the ANC Sebokeng branch.

MR SIBIYA: We were at a certain base or based in a certain area on this particular day of this occurrence, and my Commander Makasonke, arrived with a rifle, an AK47. He informed us that we had to go and attack a certain house at Lusaka B, Gamedi Street number 1285, Mr Sithole's place.

MR LENGANE: And now Mr Molope came out and he got into your line of fire and you started firing with your AK47, please continue.

MR ZULU: On the 2nd of March we went out to dig out the weapons we had concealed. There were two Ak47's, V11 and a 303 firearm. We thereafter left. There was a steep hill where we hid behind some trees. That is where we waited until the vehicle approached and when it approached we went out onto ...

MR PULE: What I remember is that I trained him how to use the AK47 and the pistol, the grenades, the limpet mines and also how to make the car bomb and how to prepare oneself when you are going to use the car bomb. As far as the political education was concerned, the emphasis was on making sure ...

... anybody who could be parted from it. Even the modern rifle which supplies the South African Defence Force, the R4, has its origins in the humble AK47, albeit with the Israeli intervention in between of the Galil(?) weapon. We know that Armscor would not scruple to beg, borrow, steal if ...

... According to the reports that you got after the attack, was the reason furnished, was it the only reason furnished that they heard a cock of an AK47, that's why they shot back? I don't know whether that was your evidence, or I'm ...

(i) Supplying an AK47 rifle and ammunition to ANC structures in Sharpeville during or about 1993.