AK47

The Applicant testified that he acted on instruction of Lieut. Hechter who accompanied him, Lieut. Van Jaarsveld and Sgt. Joe Mamasela. They were armed with AK47 rifles and a home-made explosive, known as a mellow-yellow bomb.

... taken one by one, but I was the first one. Now I was the one who said a lot and after me Ms Mia was the next one. These people were asking about AK47’s, I said I know nothing about AK47’s. They said if this policeman wanted to kill me where were you, what were you going to do about ...

MR NTOMBENI: I wasn't there. On that day we were in Orlando and it so happened that I had an AK47 with me. I was arrested together with Tobogo and Mangena. And at that time we lost that AK47, they arrested Tobogo, they assaulted them.

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.

GRANTED AMNESTY: in respect of the unlawful possession of one AK47 rifle, one 9mm Star pistol, one Stetchken pistol and 48 rounds of ammunition for which he was arrested on 12 November 1993.

has been led that the applicants before the Committee are very unsophisticated people, even their struggle was not one with hand grenades, bombs and AK47's. That should be noted and even in the application forms, they didn't have the opportunity of the application forms being filled by the ...

... him to be ready to go on an operation. Taylor, Vorster and Du Preez then met at the farm. Taylor explained the operation to them and handed two AK47 automatic assault rifles to Du ...

I did go and pick up weapons from Col Drury, it was only a few AK47's with a fold-up butt, AKM, the ANC only used AKM, they did not use the normal AK47's. The rest of the AK's, we got from Vlakplaas' own storage. We also ensured that it was Russian ammunition. For each weapon we gave two or ...

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.

1. The unlawful possession of firearms, on 7,62 x 39 calibre AK47.

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.

i) unlawful possession of 17 AK47 firearms;

The bringing in and storage of war weaponry, including AK47 machine-guns, handgrenades and explosives;

... was over.  He then went back to fetch them.  He had used a police kombi with false registration letters and numbers.  They were armed with AK47 machine guns with silencers.  The vehicle had been modified and fitted with invisible panels where the arms were hidden.  Flores confirms ...

... Norman Madopa who was the driver of the get-away-car, a blue Stanza. They collected the applicant and Goodman. Sithole gave the applicant an AK47 rifle and ordered him to participate in the attack on Sgt. Morget's house who was viewed by the comrades as sell-out as he was very active in ...

"A war against the ANC. The assassination of political leaders was high on their agenda. De Kock had several meetings with Viljoen and also supplied 60 AK47’s to Riaan van Rensburg"

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.

... 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 TIPP: I'm going to suggest to you that in the immediate vicinity of where you must have been on that description, there was a man from your group who was firing widely with an AK47 during the time of the shooting incident itself.

... to create a picture for you, what I gained out of the information obtained when interrogating ANC members, out of those 55 cachets, I retrieved 10 AK47 rifles and 2 500 bullets, two AND assault weapons, one VZZ sub-machine gun, 10 Scorpio machine pistols and 450 rounds of ammunition, five ...