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these people, they stopped us and requested for some cigarette light and we did so, after which somebody who was behind me had produced a sword or a panga and the other ones asked for some cigarettes and the other one tripped me and as I was lying down, they came running, actually some of them ...

MR BERGER: If you were targeting the ANC, Mr Mthembu, can you tell the Committee why it is that three year old Mita Moleti, that little girl who's in the wheelchair today, why she was stabbed, in fact her skull was hacked with a panga, can you explain that?

MR ZUMA: Panga.

... eight in the morning and I went outside to investigate what was happening. I came across the anti-Comrade gang who were having shovels as well as pangas and I was running towards Mwilwa's shop. And when I got to Mwilwa's shop I saw this group of Comrades in front of the shop and they were ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

my members at Vlakplaas would go and cut a person's throat. I would not say it was a matter of what we liked. Not any of my members chose to use a panga on a person. We kept the distance between us that a firearm allows you. And I don't know of any of my members who walked around slitting ...

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.

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?

... 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. ...

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?