AK47

"A usually reliable source during the first week of December 1985, reported a number of AK47 rifles and unidentified round objects, presumably landmines, in the possession of an MK terrorist. This terrorist stated that he and three other cohorts would travel to Bloemfontein and Kimberley before ...

MR MATHEBE: I could hear the sound of AK47 and I became aware that they would delay to move from that spot to where I was waiting for them, so I decided to go and collect them immediately.

MR MOELE: Firstly because we had AK47 sub-machine guns, we needed the pistols for personal security and also to train SDU comrades with these firearms that we got inside the country, in South Africa.

MR ROSSOUW: You were also issued with an AK47, which was fitted with a silencer, is that correct?

MR DU PLESSIS: There was a pile of stones packed next to the road so that the askari could see where he was supposed to stop. I was armed with an AK47 silenced gun. We brought the weapons that we were going to use with us from Vlakplaas. All of us were placed at one side of the road among the ...

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

MR BOOYENS: Mr Bellingan, after you received the instruction, were you the driver of a kombi with false panels that transported AK47 with silencers to get them into Swaziland?

MR BRITZ: It was an AK47 with a silencer and at some or other place where there was an embankment, we tested it to see if it was operating.

CHAIRPERSON: And you were shot and you had the Makarov there. And the other ammunition referred to in charge sixteen, 240 rounds of AK47 ammunition and other ammunition, they were at the safe house, were they?

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 ...

MR MAMETSE: One of the objectives was to acquire handguns, short guns because the material that we had mostly consisted of AK47 and there was a need to have a short gun for personal protection, among other reasons.

From there we went to the veld or an open area where the hostel dwellers would be. I and other comrades were in front and there were others who were going to be ...(indistinct) up. I carried a 9mm and the co-applicant had an AK47.

... has now confirmed his affidavit, so we can refer to that, Mr Toyise and his family members had been arrested shortly before this incident and an AK47 had been seized by the police. Now a day or so before the arrest of Mr Toyise, people had come to Mr Toyise's home to get the AK47 and these ...

"Lt Pretorius instructed Peter Lengene, Monyane and Linda Moni to make sure that the limpet mines were placed nearby ...(indistinct) and if they failed to pull out the pins of the limpet mines they should shoot them with the AK47 rifles."

... specifically on the evening when he returned home from duty and went home, as he put down his sandwiches, he was shot through the window with an AK47 and this indicates specifically on this matter. I mention this with respect, that Brig Cronje, who was well familiar with this case, has been ...

The next incident, the murder of Anthony Mzimande, was clearly also on the instructions of Mkhize, after a report was received that an ANC members, armed with AK47's were at a certain house. Again I submit that this clearly emanates from conflicts of the past and have political motive.

CHAIRPERSON: What sort of firearm was it? Was it an AK47, a pistol, a revolver, what sort of firearm?

MR MAFU: In the execution of the operation was used hand grenades, AK47's and pistols.

MR HATTINGH: Did you hear Mr de Kock's evidence that he gave instruction for explosives devices and AK47 magazines to be taken with and planted at the scene?

(iv) a silencer for an AK47 machine rifle,