AK47

... and fingerprints lifted from a house at Boikhotso, Orderele was positively linked. In that house, certain items relating to mini-limpet mines and AK47 rifles were discovered and confiscated and I don't want to pretend that I am referring to arms themselves. It had to do with oil and cleaning ...

MR VAN RENSBERG: Did you see Mr Swanepoeljumping into the room, away from the previous applicant which had the AK47,could you see that?

... around half past six, we attacked the place. We were a Unit of four, the fifth one, Wando Silegeno was at work at the time. I was armed with an AK47 rifle, Tsotetsi with a 9mm pistol, Dalisolo with a knife and Xaba was not armed. We used a taxi to this place. This place was surrounded with ...

MR SINGH: Grenades were there, there was an AK47 there, there was a Gypsy there, there was mortar there as well.

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 ...

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 ...

MR BOTHA: I cannot say that these were AK's, we just assumed that they were AK47's, but the gun that was being cocked was definitely a gun, I knew that there were five guns. They were successively cocked, not simultaneously.

MR VAN DEN BERG: Were you given an instruction to fire rounds through the AK47 before you left it in the vehicle?

MR RADEBE: That there was a person who has been killed. There was a person who was murdered with AK47, in the direction of Oskraal, in a certain farm. I think his name was mentioned. His bag was left in my car, then I hid that suitcase, but there was no firearm or ID or anything.

MR DE KOCK: Well the standard issue weapon of the SDU was an AK47.

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, there was an increase in the smuggling of weapons, especially from Mozambique and there the Unit who was under my command, obtained successes. In a period of six weeks to two months, we took possession of 400 to 600 AK47's which had been smuggled in from Mozambique.

MR NGOBESE: I heard that they had found AK47 and hand- grenades, I don't know how many.

... 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 ...

... of ordinance and safe-shooting and on the overall, the efficient execution of the SDU tasks. As a Unit we were also trained in the use of AK47 automatic rifles, pistols, grenades. Part of our political education included the history of the MK, the contents of the ongoing violence, the ...

MR VIKTOR: Chair, what I can remember is that we operated at two homes in Tembisa. In one case we used an explosive device to attack the home and at the second home, we used AK47's to shoot at the house.

... regarded a person of 18 years old as a young child. And may I say, with respect, Mr Chairperson, that a young child of eight years old with an AK47 in his hands will kill you just as dead as a 50 year-old person. And in fact all over the world armies are made up of persons between the ages ...

MR ROSSOUW: You also heard and you saw the evidence that you were armed with an AK47, would you dispute that or would you accept that?

MR SHANGE: Master gave us the guns. I personally was armed with a pump-gun, Jabulani Ncokwane had an AK47, Jomo also had an AK, Sonny Ngcobo as well, Jabulani Cele had a handgrenade, Senzo Shange had a home-made gun.

MR VISSER: To interrupt you there, do you have any knowledge of any - we have heard of an AK47 and a limpet mine which was planted in the kombi, do you have any personal knowledge thereof?

MR DU PLESSIS: Can you remember anything about an AK47?