AK47

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

... for the past two days and ultimately the feeling from the family. The allegations against Petrus Lubane, one, he intended to train people to use AK47's, handling of explosives and to establish a base in Pretoria, the findings that is now regarding the first allegations, the police received ...

MR VISSER: Okay, R2 000. And then for the delivery of an AK47 or the pointing out of an AK47, there was another amount?

MR NGOBESE: I heard that they had found AK47 and hand- grenades, I don't know how many.

follows:- On the 29th of September 1992 the applicant and ten (10) others raided the house of Mkhize with rifles and guns. They were armed with an AK47, two 303 rifles, one 308 rifle and a shotgun. The other members of the group were armed with spears and Mkhize was being attacked because ANC ...

others, AK47 weapons, an RPG7 and also RPK and Makorov

Second Applicant was armed with an AK47 obtained from Hechter.  He shot directly at the buildings in order to damage it.

MR MAMASELA: In the Kwandabele 9, the people were ambushed in a house and they shot, all nine of them. They were shot and massacred with AK47's and then one Lieutenant Hechter - you will be meeting with him shortly, he came with a big 25 litre of petrol, he poured in all these corpses and then he ...

... 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 ...

The next incident, the murder of Anthony Mzimande, was clearly also on the instructions of Mkhize, after a report was received that an ANC members, armed with AK47's were at a certain house. Again I submit that this clearly emanates from conflicts of the past and have political motive.

MR MAFU: In the execution of the operation was used hand grenades, AK47's and pistols.

MR PRETORIUS: The onslaught on the Police, you must understand that the Protea office was located within Soweto and Sergeant Mong can testify here about an afternoon when he was on his way to the office and he was attacked with an 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.

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.

... - the conditions under which he worked were not nice and he disappeared, but he told Sgt Selai about the girlfriend that he had in exile, he had an AK47 that he left outside the country. Mr Selai explained all this to me, I did not know him, but he was telling me about ...

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.

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?

i) unlawful possession of 17 AK47 firearms;

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 ...

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 ...