AK47

11. Unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. These being an R4 or R5 rifle, an AK47 rifle, ammunition for these weapons and hand and rifle grenades.

We have heard in our experience in these hearings, that you often had Units and then they had their AK47's and hand grenades and whatever, they had arms when they went on an operation. If an operative did not have an arm, would he be issued with an arm, a weapon of some sort?

... retaliatory attacks against the members of the IFP staying at Ngcobo's place. For this purpose the applicant and Thokozani Mbhele were armed with AK47 whilst his other colleagues were armed with self-made pump guns. These weapons belonged to the ANC and were used for such retaliatory attacks ...

... Applicant is unable to furnish full particulars of all the weaponry that was procured, these included to the best of his recollection, 7 or 8 AK47 assault rifles and between 5 and 10, 9mm handguns. Applicant was also involved in the legal and illegal acquisition of ammunition for these ...

MR NDLOVU: Yes, I am telling you about what transpired after the attack. I took the firearms that were left by my friends and I put the R1 rifle and the AK47 together, I wrapped them together and went to conceal them. I then took the shotgun with me to where I spending my nights.

MR NTOMBENI: AK47.

... Natal region, but somewhere, as to how many weapons, what there nature, the type of weapons, etc that were delivered to Southern Natal and if three AK47's went to Umkababa and two went to Inanda or whatever, would there be that sort of record somewhere in the MK offices, either at Headquarters or ...

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

... was done and Motasi soon thereafter arrived and on opening the door was attacked by Hechter and the applicant. Loots hit him with the butt of an AK47 gun, while applicant strangled him and he lost consciousness after Hechter kicked him. A pillow was put over his head and four shots were fired ...

      The fraud committed in handing in an AK47 - August 1991 to January 1992 of Col GHB Bruwer - 1993.

... the African National Congress in Durban, my family was attacked. My wife Constance, my daughter Margaret and a grandson Sabatha were shot dead with AK47's at close range. They were crowded together in a lavatory which was pointed to me thereafter on my arrival in Durban. They were brutally ...

... were supplied free in order to gain future zones of influence in the strategic areas of the world. There is no coincidence in the fact that the AK47 is the commonly used weapon in the areas of conflict to say nothing of Russian tanks, aircraft, trucks and other equipment made by ...

... Just to finally close on this point, as we heard from previous Amnesty Hearings, there were incidents where the information was that let's say AK47 weapons were involved, but that Murder and Robbery were not investigated but then the Security Branch will take over the investigation and be ...

... he had gathered information to the effect that there was money at the bottle store and he said we should go and get the money so that we can buy AK47's because we were now headed for the elections, we were now in shortage of these assault ...

MR NOFOMELA: It was a small one. It was a small gun, it wasn't a big one like an AK47.

"... under the mattress of the bed, towards the inside of the wall, there was an AK47 storm gun wrapped in a plastic bag. In a black briefcase, there was a .375 Magnum Taurus revolver and a 9mm 39 pistol. I also found a Transkeian passport in the room, containing the photo of the suspect, with ...

MR KAHANOVITZ: He said that he returned to the cottage that he'd hired on a particular day thereafter and he found a parcel that had been left there for him, containing an AK47 and two magazines, this was on the 11th of September, 1989, the day before Adv Lubowski's assassination.

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?

... the ISU in the area. There were four of them at the time. He, the applicant, was armed with a .303 rifle. The first applicant was armed with an AK47 and had certain explosive devices. One of the other two had an R4 and the fourth had a firearm and further explosive devices. They tried not ...

... in the morning and it happened on the road to Barberton. We stopped a car and we were told to watch out for a specific vehicle because they had AK47's in them. We did not know specifically which vehicle to look for though. We stopped a vehicle and when this person stepped out with the bag ...