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| pangaExplanation ... 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. ... 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?  They were carrying sticks, knives, panga's, axes, metal bars and similar things.  In Spilecha Road I noticed a badly injured man at the southern edge of the soccer stadium.  He was about three, four metres from the actual road. ... this type of treatment from them.  I was taught never ever to use a knife - a knife was used to carve meat.  I was taught never ever to use a panga, an instrument or any weapon whatsoever.  Now, when I was taught not to use any weapons, how could I get injured from a ... substitute for the stick and panga. "...  they also had panga's, spears, axes, knopkieries and big, long firearms with them." MR NGWENYA: We chased him.  We stabbed him.  He fell.  I had a jungle knife and I stabbed him and one other comrade had a panga and he stabbed him too. ... of liquor together.  Whilst they were walking together the Applicant and Thulani followed them, the latter two both armed.  The Applicant had a panga in his possession.  At a certain point they attacked the deceased and killed ... 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. ... 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 ... |