AK47

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.

MR MEMANI: Do you remember the incident when Colonel Smith flew to Cape Town to intercept AK47’s which were being shipped from the USSR and were destined for Lesotho?

"Explosives experts found this at the scene. Limpet mines and handgrenades, detonators as well as 4 empty AK47 magazines."

not even see any firearms amongst the marchers. It was Mr Jacob Modise Molefe who testified that he saw a big man wearing a red T-shirt carrying an AK47. He further testified that he saw this man shooting. However, under cross-examination he admitted that he did not see this man ...

We started opening our AK47 fire, that was for the first time the Mangope regime had an experience of an AK47. It also used to resonate right down in Pretoria and they would not know how we came in, which route we used, and they would quarrel with Mangope over our entry point.

I abided by his decision. Just to say I had an AK47 in the car, and I had a modified bayonet which I took with me to clubs and places like that. It was actually a murder weapon, I had it on me. He totally discouraged me to do anything other than the monitoring and I abided by that.

MR MATHEBE: I could hear the sound of AK47 and I became aware that they would delay to move from that spot to where I was waiting for them, so I decided to go and collect them immediately.

MR VAN DER WALT: Could you give any indication to the Committee why it was also necessary for you to empty a magazine from an AK47 on the deceased?

... of askaris would be compensated? For instance if you are aware of it you would for instance know that if a terrorist is killed you get R500. If a AK47 is found you get R300. Or whatever the case might be. Were you aware of such a general ...

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, ...