AK47

MR THULO: Linda Radebe. I was driving towards Polla Park looking for AK47 ammunition because I was ordered to go and buy those ammunitions. Linda Radebe who has since died saw Peter Sewasi, who is my co-applicant. They asked me that my car should be used. Peter was having a red headband like ...

MR RAS: Apart from the fact that I could not determine the age of the person I could also not determine whether or not that person was lying in the bed clutching an AK47 or a Scorpion pistol.

MR BARNARD: No then I was then under arrest and I was in detention. I cannot recall the precise period but I know that in November I took out an AK47, so I was already in detention. I had spent much time in detention and I was only released in February.

MR SITHOLE: There was an exchange of fire, between Temba who was holding an AK47 and a person who had a small firearm, while Mr Munsami was inside.

MR P DE CASTRO: Okay, sorry. And I saw some men. One which was carrying an R, it looked like an R4, an AK47 and he had a briefcase in the other arm at the same time.

With this in mind Steyn and Botha cordoned off the area preventing the other policemen and the public from coming close to the Cressida. Wasserman returned with a bag containing AK47's and hand grenades that he gave to Botha who surreptitiously planted them in the Cressida.

... mission. We were a Unit of four and I was the Commander of the Unit. It was myself, Msito, Lunga and Sbu. I was armed with R4 rifle, Msito with AK47, Lunga was the driver, unarmed, and Sbu was armed with R5 and we also had RPG7, two rocket launchers, which were to be used in the ...

MR CORNELIUS: You were equipped also with a AK47 with a silencer?

of the unit on the target. The operation was as follows: We were a unit of five operatives, Bheki was appointed as a commander and was carrying an AK47. He was deployed outside the building within the hearing distance of comrade Vido. Vido was deployed outside the building at the back and was ...

MR MATSHIDIDI: We would go with weapons that are supposed to be used at such buildings, sometimes carrying AK47'S.

... from Kathlehong who unfortunately is not alive currently, his name is Comrade Jackie Macheko, he was a member of MK. He arrived and handed an AK47 to me and as I said earlier, when I was released I realised that people who are attacking the community inside the township are professional ...

The roar of the AK47 in my ears were my comforters

It must also believe that prison warders would train a man with an atrocious criminal record in the handling of AK47's, R1 rifles and various assault weapons, it must believe that the AWB will use somebody to assassinate Mr Phosa who has never even seen Mr Phosa, who does not even know from his ...

... about the R5 rifle, how it was designed and it was only made, it was only made for police use only. They told us that the ANC terrorists had AK47s with a shooting rate of 650 rounds per minute. And that we with our 9 mm and our short guns had no chance against them. This is why the R5 was ...

MR DE KOCK: Mr Chairperson, yes, I also gave the instructions or permission that they had to add a few AK47 magazines and that this must be left at the scene.

3. Unlawful possession of petrol bombs; AK47 rifles and ammunition; an unknown number of Russian-made hand-grenades and limpet mines;

ADV GCABASHE: Yes, but my difficulty with that is those were the four who where then found with AK47's on the other side of the border, so I assumed from the evidence, I understood those were the people, from the evidence that has been led, who had the AK47's, not necessarily the escorts who were ...

In order to make the unit win Lengene's trust, thus enabling Lengene to obtain the required information, it was decided that weapons like AK47, handgrenades and an SPM limpet mine would be furnished to the unit and passed on as having been received from the underground structures.

... from the barrel of thisgun blowing up and obviously this loud bang that went with itgave me such a shock that I ripped off the stock, I had an AK47,and I just kept firing, my hand was being burnt by the barrelbut I was just crazy at that time and we were all firing. ...

... also information that an informer of the Security Branch at Ladybrand had told them that he had seen an arms cache in Lesotho, and he referred to AK47 assault rifles and round objects and there was an inference drawn that they may have been landmines, because what was obviously in the minds of ...