panga

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.

... 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.

... 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.

... 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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

... 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.

... 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.