panga

MR MBANDAZAYO: Is it correct that you were armed with 7.65 and also a panga on the day in question?

... was so confusing and we just kept quiet. They started kicking the door. I wasn’t sure whether they shot at the door or whether they hacked with a panga. As we used to call the deceased Kohli and we asked, why do you have to close the door. While we were still there two people entered the ...

MR DE KOCK: Chairperson, any method of killing is brutal. If it is violent, then any method is brutal, whether it is by means of a knife, a panga or a bullet, all of them are equally gruesome.

... deceased. The applicant says that he was armed with a gun which had been given to him by Joe Ngema and his companions were armed with spears and pangas. They went to a shebeen run by one Mtshali and waited there for the deceased who was known to frequent that place. When the deceased arrived ...

"... they also had panga's, spears, axes, knopkieries and big, long firearms with them."

Question: In court what did he (one of the complainants) say you went about trying to kill him? Did he say you tried to chop him with a panga, did he say you shot him? What did he say?

MR MAJOLA: Yes I had a panga.

... it. Some went into the house whilst others stayed outside. When they eventuallyencountered the deceased, he came out of the house armed with a panga and appeared to beaggressive. The group overpowered him put him in the Kombi and drove off. He wasquestioned about the keys to the Civic entre, ...

MR VAN DEN BERG: If you look at Exhibit C you will see that on the 28th February 1979 you were sentenced to five years imprisonment for armed robbery, apparently involving the use of a panga, do you see that?

MR TSHOKO: I kicked him, I even hit him with a brick. I did not have a panga with me at the time.

... same Dikwankwetla mob, they tore the shack apart because they were lookingfor my brother. When my brother came out they chopped his head with a panga.My brother tried to run away, but he fell on the street. Each and every oneof them wanted to take his part or to make his share. Then they ...

... the door, that child came to me. When that child arrived, he came to me and said, people, there are people who are having axes, they were having pangas with them. There were four of them. When they arrived, they get hold of me with my jacket. They pulled me. I was not able to ask where ...

... cannot confirm what it was, but where from the position where I was I thought in my mind it was long rifles which I couldn't see what it was, AK or panga but you could see that it was long rifles which were hidden under their jackets or ...

Then I came across a White man. This man tried to hack me with a panga. I tried to grab it, that is when he cut this finger I'm showing to you. When I tried to turn then he hacked my daughter on the head. Then there was brain that I could see. I tried again to turn then he stabbed me with a ...

... were gruesomely murdered by blacks in Bekkersdal. In 1985 the son of Sergeant Gerber, who was also a friend of the second applicant, was killed by panga wielding attackers in ...

... he came back to my bedroom. I am the one who saw him, as well as what he was having with him. I saw something that looked like a sword. I saw a panga that has got a hook at the front, a little hook. He was having that in his hand. He said I must get into the bedroom. I went in with him. ...