AK47

MR BOOYENS: Mr Bellingan, after you received the instruction, were you the driver of a kombi with false panels that transported AK47 with silencers to get them into Swaziland?

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

ADV SANDI: When you convened those meetings, did you say to those who attended the meetings, we should go and get arms, ammunition, AK47's, etc at such a place? Did you make such suggestions?

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?

... which was handed over to the Special Investigative Unit of the Attorney General of the Western Transvaal which proved that there were numerous AK47 rifles for which there was no accounting, during this time AK47 rifles were smuggled into the RSA via Mozambique. This also fortified the ...

sense, like an indictment so that if we grant amnesty, we will grant it in terms of a specific offence which would be identifiable, possession of an AK47 or whatever it may be, during the period 1990 up to 1992 or whatever period it may be, so that it will cover the whole incident and ...

MR BIZOS:: And were there unconventional means used in order to deal with persons who were considered enemies of the State, even though they may have not been carriers of AK47’s?

When I arrived on the scene I saw that two members of the Police had been murdered and another person with an AK47 in his hand was found dead on the scene.

... house it was confirmed that he was the owner of the house; that an ANC membership card containing his particulars was found in the house; that an AK47 rifle was found in the ceiling of the house; that petrol bombs were found in the garage adjacent to the house and that in the direct vicinity of ...

prison. He introduced John Showa to us and that was in June and he trained us and thereafter he did this in a house no. 337 in Botshabelo. He used AK47 firearms and a 3.8 and a Scorpion and a handgrenade and an R1. After June he left and he said he would come back in November. That was in ...

... of the operation, we had agreed that myself and Tshika were the actual people who were supposed to carry out the operation. I was armed with an AK47 with two magazines, which means 60 rounds, three F1 handgrenades and Tshika had the same ammunition. The mode of operation that we used was ...

... there was this - he calls this person, he doesn't know his name but a young boy of about 18 and 20 years who was constantly on his side with an AK47 and he was starved for sixteen days. I mean in contrast to the picture you're trying to paint of him having been well ...

MR RICHARDSON: There was AK47, but divided. There was AK47 separated, there were grenades as well. I was even scared of touching those things, I just looked at them.

... Nhlapo of cash. Nhlanhla was able to point out the alleged offenders one of whom was the deceased. At the time the applicant was armed with an AK47 and ammunition which was the possession of the SDU and was part of the consignment of weapons bought by the SDUs in order to carry out their ...

... could be fitted with silencers.  Applicant eventually received three pistols as well as approximately two silencers which could be fitted to AK47 assault rifles.  He handed the items to one of his subordinates for safekeeping.  There is no indication that any of the items were used in ...

Having considered the application amnesty is hereby GRANTED to the Applicant in respect of the unlawful possession of an AK47 assault rifle and ammunition during or about the period 1990 to 10 May 1994 as a member of the Self Defence Unit at Extension 2, Thokoza.

MR LAMEY: Very well, and then you also say in paragraph 16 on page 117 that there were other weapons, for example a rocket launcher, a PG7 as well as AK47 and handgrenades in the back of the vehicle?

The person who gave me the command was comrade Mathule. He said I was the one who was supposed to shoot those people. I started crawling towards the gate where these people were standing. I started shooting. I think I shot about 32 bullets from my AK47.

You will note that what is depicted on most of them, are weapons, AK47's, that is probably the most important aspect thereof. Mr Bellinghan, before we dealt with the fact that they came from Khotso House, could you give us an indication of how regularly documents, stickers, pamphlets, posters, ...

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.