AK47

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 ...

... 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 ...

Evidence has been led that during the questioning Hashe admitted keeping an AK47 at his sister's place. This soon turned out to have been a lie as Hashe later said he was lying and had done so to relieve himself from further assaults. The deception is said to have infuriated his ...

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

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 HATTINGH: And when Ngqulunga was killed the impression was created that he was killed by members of the ANC, because he was shot dead with an AK47, isn't that so?

... contained in it, that people could be charged with terrorism or something like that very easily without necessarily carrying a hand grenade and a AK47. ...

... in respect of his conviction in the then Stanger Regional Court on 2 December 1993, in terms of Act 75 of 1969, for the unlawful possession of 1 AK47 automatic rifle, 4 F1 hand grenades, 2 AK47 magazines, 1 Makarov pistol magazine and sundry ammunition. The applicant was sentenced to an ...

What I want to explain is that each of them, the way they were sleeping there, they were sleeping there each had an AK47 lying next to him next to the head, and they asked who am I when I arrived. I told them I have been sent by Teboga, they collected their bag and we left and they were following ...

We must also say to each other that at that stage it was not only the defence force in possession of firearms, but many of the people, not part of the old regime, were also in possession of firearms. I mean AK47's was a daily

I abided by his decision. Just to say I had an AK47 in the car, and I had a modified bayonet which I took with me to clubs and places like that. It was actually a murder weapon, I had it on me. He totally discouraged me to do anything other than the monitoring and I abided by that.

We started opening our AK47 fire, that was for the first time the Mangope regime had an experience of an AK47. It also used to resonate right down in Pretoria and they would not know how we came in, which route we used, and they would quarrel with Mangope over our entry point.

MR VAN DER WALT: Could you give any indication to the Committee why it was also necessary for you to empty a magazine from an AK47 on the deceased?

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.

... Semour 22 members of PASO were physically assaulted. In 1992 in Emanzini at Peddie 2 members were killed and 4 members were shot in Fort Hare with AK47’s and in 1992 in Fort Beaufort the same thing happened, one of our members was shot with an AK47. We never heard any of these people who ...

... of the ISU, who fired at the Applicant. After being ordered to do so by his commander, Vusi, Applicant fired 3 rounds at the policeman with his AK47 assault rifle. In the ensuing battle one of the SDU members was wounded. After the police fled the scene, Applicant and his colleagues ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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