AK47

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

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 ...

... 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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

... the person who was to execute the elimination. One evening he proceeded to the target's place where he knocked on the door. he was armed with an AK47 and when the target opened the door, Applicant shot him at close range. The Applicant assumes that the person died because of the proximity in ...