AK47

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

In order to make the unit win Lengene's trust, thus enabling Lengene to obtain the required information, it was decided that weapons like AK47, handgrenades and an SPM limpet mine would be furnished to the unit and passed on as having been received from the underground structures.

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

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

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 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 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 ...

not even see any firearms amongst the marchers. It was Mr Jacob Modise Molefe who testified that he saw a big man wearing a red T-shirt carrying an AK47. He further testified that he saw this man shooting. However, under cross-examination he admitted that he did not see this man ...

When we were about three or four kilometres we heard a sound at the back, the AK47 sounds. We then realised that something was happening behind us. We then continued, we went forward. I don't know whether you understand me.

MR MEMANI: Do you remember the incident when Colonel Smith flew to Cape Town to intercept AK47’s which were being shipped from the USSR and were destined for Lesotho?

MR MPUNGOSE: I was staying with a young man whose name was Zweli Mkunu. He was originally from Lamontville and there was this other young man who would be there sleeping with me in the room who would have his AK47 all the time.

... here are the Stashkin pistol which the applicant, on his version, says was issued to him by the MK, in fact by Twana and Radebe together with an AK47 plus ammunition for these firearms. The other firearm which is relevant here is the .38 pistol, which is connected to the ...