AK47

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.

We had to devise some means to eliminate him so as to end all the problems that we had in the township. Late in the evening, I took an AK47 rifle, I started looking for the deceased. I went straight to the place. The deceased died at a place, at a tavern called Culture Club. I realised that he ...

We have then a whole list of incidents that happened in the Ciskei, and although it's certainly not clear that these were all MK operations, but we are talking about 48 handgrenade attacks, 23 AK47 attacks, limpet mine incidents with regard to headmen and ADM members, Ciskei police officers etc.

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 ...

I then learnt that one of the civilians, I don't know his name, the male, was hit through the neck and was in a very critical condition. One of the policeman, a constable, was hit through the - with a flesh wound, through the thigh, and I was hit through the tibia several times with AK47 rifles.

The roar of the AK47 in my ears were my comforters

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

MR MOTHIBE: I was armed with AK47.

... in a house used by the IR. The house is situated within the ministerial complex in Bisho. The weapons which were of Eastern Bloc origin included AK47 rifles, RPG9's and SAM 7's. SAM 7's are surface to air missiles. And the Commission will note that some of the weapons mentioned here are ...

... mentions that information that was gleaned from a reliable source during the first week of December, a group was noted who were in possession of AK47 rifles and certain circular objects and they wanted to - no date was given, but during the Festive Season, to come into South Africa to "work" ...

MR LAMEY: Very well. Your version - you have also given a version as to how Brian Ngqulunga was eventually shot with an AK47, through his body and head. Is this as it was conveyed to you afterwards?

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

... 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 ...

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.

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.

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 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?

... of the operation the applicant was armed with a 9mm star pistol, and his operatives had the following weapons; Lumumba a 9mm star pistol, Belo an AK47, Small Boy an AK47, Thabiso an AK47 and Mpush was not armed and was the driver of the getaway car that was used in the operation. The unit was ...

... of askaris would be compensated? For instance if you are aware of it you would for instance know that if a terrorist is killed you get R500. If a AK47 is found you get R300. Or whatever the case might be. Were you aware of such a general ...