AK47

The offences on which you are applying amnesty for are murder, attempted murder, indicate 7 charges, possession of AK47 rifles, rounds of ammunition for AK47, eight magazines and seven mini-limpet mines, Makarov pistol and robbery of a motor vehicle. Are you, have you ever appeared in court, and ...

14 Unlawful possession of AK47 ammunition.

MR TSHABALALA: Yes, there is one incident that I was involved in, the Mazibuko incident that has brought me here. I was present, as it was explained earlier on, I was carrying my AK47 and people died in Mazibuko.

MR SHAYI: Mr Chairman, as I indicated yesterday that on page 13 of the bundle, and page 15 of the bundle, mention is made on page 13 of three AK47 firearms and nine shotguns, and on page 15, of two AK47's and several pistols and several revolvers. It is my submission that when the application was ...

MR ZWANE: AK47 rifles, Scorpion sub-machine pistols.

MR MARHINQI: AK47 rifles.

"A usually reliable source saw during the first week of December 1985, an unknown number of AK47 guns and unidentified round metal objects, probably landmines, in the possession of a known ANC terrorist in Lesotho. The terrorist stated that he and three other cohorts would go to Bloemfontein and ...

CHAIRPERSON: Carry on. You've told us now that you kept the weapons in the car. The weapons I think were AK47 assault rifles and Stechkin machine gun and ammunition in sealed containers?

MR KHANYILE: We were armed with AK47 rifles. I was carrying an HMC.

MR NHLAPO: It was an AK47.

... to go, to come to them and take their arms, because their arms were here, so mine was just to go and take the arms. I would not do that having an AK47 at the very same time, so it was not possible for Linda to do all those things, to take the guns and even to point them, because we only had one ...

MR RORICH: Certainly yes. There was an AK47 gun, an AKM at everyone of the bodies. The order was given to Warrant Officer Pienaar who discharged the weapons and there were two carry bags within which there was a Russian F1 type Eastern Block handgrenade.

10. Amnesty is GRANTED to Rodney Abraham Moeketsi Toka; R.N. Legodi; and T.R. Kgotsa for the attempted murder of Constable Mphahlele and malicious injury to property. They are also GRANTED amnesty for unlawful possession of an unlicensed AK47 and a handgrenade on 15 April 1988.

1 x AK47 rifle and;

MR NDABA: We also bought ammunition, some bullets, about 60 of them, that is AK47 bullets.

MR CORNELIUS: Very well. It is also common cause that you were present when test shots were fired with the AK47, is that correct?

... at the moment, and there between me, Ernest Ramadite, George Mathe and Mensday, we went somewhere towards Mafikeng where we received training of AK47's, hand grenade and limpet ...

the flower bed and when the first man wasabout five metres away from me, he aimed a pistol at me and when Mr Thobejanestood up, I saw that he had an AK47.  I then stood still, I first wanted torun and then the person with the pistol said I should stand still.  As I wasstill thinking what I was ...

MR MBHALATI: I accompanied Sililo. At that time I happened to confirm to Sililo that Shingange was the person whom we were looking after and one other thing is that I also carried the bag which contained an AK47 which Sililo used to fire at Shingange.

CHAIRPERSON: Is it your evidence that since 1992 up to the time when you committed this offence, you were in continual possession of this firearm being an AK47?