panga

The one dead man had a small circular wound in his back which looked like a gunshot wound. There were many police and soldiers around and many "witdoeke" within 20 metres. The "witdoeke" were heavily armed with knives, panga's and sticks.

JUDGE NGOEPE: In court what did he say you went about trying to kill him? Did he say you tried to chop him with a panga, did he say you shot at him? What did he say?

- Checkers Tavern is not far away from my home, then I saw a large group of people entering Checkers Tavern. That is when I left my home, taking my panga and I went to Checkers. Then when I arrived there I saw Johannes, he was being assaulted and being asked questions about his other ...

... and seemingly other people were against his chairmanship. Then my son was attacked. Shots went off and my son fell. The people from Maja took a panga. You know when I looked at my son's head, it had wounds and the eighth one chopped his neck. That's when I went to the hospital to see ...

... three times, but I was not successful. Ndamase told me that the only thing that is needed to kill, to injure this person, was the knives and the pangas before shooting him. Ndamase rushed to fetch the panga and when the other people heard the gunshots went outside, they wanted to know what ...

... township, ever person who was not armed at that time would go to his home to arm himself. So when Mvula left, I went inside the house and took my panga and thereafter I heard a noise from Checkers Tavern, then I decided to go back to Checkers Tavern to see what was happening there. Because in ...

... and his wife. A shoot out followed during which Titus Lebea was fairly seriously wounded but they managed to wound van Tonder seriously with the panga. King Lebea, on hearing the shots, charged into the house to assist. He managed to wound Mrs van Tonder but was himself wounded in the ...

... the IFP in terrorising the community. The fourth Applicant stabbed Selai on his hand with a knife. The second Applicant hacked Selai with a panga and participated in dousing him with petrol. The third Applicant hacked him several times with a panga. The first Applicant hit the victim ...

... was assaulted and killed, may lead to a question of dishonesty. I submit that that is not so. He said that he was armed with an assegai and a panga of which he used mainly the panga. This is I submit, not what is meant by full disclosure, whether there is some contradiction or some ...

Bheki Mgenge was the one who stabbed him first. I was also armed with a panga. I started chopping at him with that panga. Other comrades were stabbing him. We left him there, we went to our respective places.

The first applicant hit the deceased Ntombela whom he knew as an IFP supporter with a panga at the back of his neck. Other SDU members also participated in assaulting him with an assortment of sharp objects. He also hit Ngema with a panga, but did not establish whether both had died in ...

... and I was also pulling her, because at that time she was powerless, and I was sort of dragging her out of the house. The other one was having a panga, and they hacked her with a panga. Whoever had a weapon was busy hacking my mother as I was holding her. I took her outside the house. As I ...

I ran away, people’s houses were closed at the time. I was just trying to go past these people. This is when I was hit with a panga on my waist, my leg was malfunctional as a result of that. My flesh was badly wounded, my leg could hardly function but I did try to run away.

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, ...

At that time others had grabbed me and my hands were behind my back and I realised that they were chopping Mbhekeni, using a panga.

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 ...