AK47

MR DU PLESSIS: Can you remember anything about an AK47?

MR BOTHA: I cannot say that these were AK's, we just assumed that they were AK47's, but the gun that was being cocked was definitely a gun, I knew that there were five guns. They were successively cocked, not simultaneously.

... normally be able to cut off the access of attackers into the township. First Applicant was armed with a 9mm pistol and Second Applicant with an AK47 assault rifle. The other members of the SDU were also armed. They concealed themselves and after a short while they noticed two minibus ...

... him that we were going to do Molope this evening, Moreki is - Makhura is observing the house. And then we also brought along Makhura's weapon, an AK47. ...

MR ARMOED: With an AK47.

... the attack at page 43, 44 Mr Chairman. In paragraph 2 at the top of the page he said he saw this gunman and he thought that this person had an AK47 automatic rifle. At the top of the page, page 44 he ...

I had an AK47 in my room and I went to fetch that AK47, and I peeped through the widow at the side facing the dam. I realised that they were lighting torches and then I shot towards that light and I told Kuntakana to ran with me. We ran outside together with Kuntakana and we fled.

MR DU PLESSIS: There was a pile of stones packed next to the road so that the askari could see where he was supposed to stop. I was armed with an AK47 silenced gun. We brought the weapons that we were going to use with us from Vlakplaas. All of us were placed at one side of the road among the ...

... regarded a person of 18 years old as a young child. And may I say, with respect, Mr Chairperson, that a young child of eight years old with an AK47 in his hands will kill you just as dead as a 50 year-old person. And in fact all over the world armies are made up of persons between the ages ...

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.