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ADV LOURENS: Now, before we proceed with the events on the 15th of April I would like you to explain to the Committee about your involvement in a necklace incident just preceding these events.

There must be determined which groups of people used children to burn down schools, throw stones and then also to do the necklace murders. And in the interest of reconciliation, the TRC must establish this and they must be independent, objective and should not look at different political ...

... deceased should be executed. Some petrol and a tyre were collected and the deceased taken into the mountain where he was executed by means of the necklace. After this body was set alight, the crowd fled from the scene. All of the applicants were present throughout the proceedings and played a ...

"During the evening interrogation, cigarette butts were nipped on my face, an attempt was made to set may hair alight. A tyre was put on my neck and a threat made to necklace me."

GEN VILJOEN: There you can see that there has been the increase also in 1986 of the necklace and the murders and the injuries coupled with that and also coupled with that, the burning of people.

he was interrogated, and then only comes the cigarette butts nipped in his face and an attempt was made to set his hair alight, and he spoke about a necklace. ...

CHAIRPERSON: Before we go onto that, I don’t know about the accuracy of this Mr Richard. It’s a newspaper report of a police statement that he was detained in 1986 in connection with an allegation of attempted murder. The attempted necklace murder of a woman teacher. Did you know that?

at a bus, if one has a look at Item 4, arson - three houses burnt down; Item 7 - public violence and Sergeant Wehbag was injured; Item 8 there was a necklace murder; Item 11 there was arson; Item 12 attack on the house of one Kart Msango; Item 13 people were shot at while in church; Item 14 three ...

That we were involved in demolishing people’s property. By killing we meant even if ... tyre that was going to necklace somebody, you have taken part in the whole process.

The ANC/SACP alliance on the other hand, unchained forces which could not be controlled, and this led to necklace murders along with the death and mutilation of defenceless citizens.

The deceased was then taken by the group, including the Applicant, to Etafeni Hostel where he was burnt to death by the so-called necklace method. The Applicant did not actually participate in the burning of the deceased but stood by as a witness to the whole incident and associated himself with ...

... the group that went to fetch the deceased where she was with her brother and they killed her in a typical political style killing, with a ...

In fact is it not solve that perhaps to your knowledge documented cases of people were killed by the necklace method as a consequence of those who have skills to spread the rumor about people being informers.

And there were necklace murders. People had been actually driven out of the townships. The policemen and here I am specifically referring to black policemen at the time, some of them had also been driven out of their communities and they had to find homes elsewhere.

MR MNISI: I wasn't going to injure anyone. We were burning it so that we could see the road ahead, we were not going to necklace anyone.

persons were killed by the necklace method. Were the police - and once again in how many incidents were

MR WILLS: Now also in 1990 and I’m referring to paragraph 6, you witnessed a person being killed by the necklace method, this Mzwimdoda Nzamande, and you believe that he was killed by the ANC, is that right?

... old, of collaboration and failure to stand up to the oppressors. Terrible methods of punishing supposed informers developed, such as the infamous "necklace". Many women were victims of these forms of violence. Political and sexual conflict may have been played out in some of these cases where ...

because we didn't warn them. One of them was Dumbana, the Chairperson of AZAPO. His story is in the Herald of the 21st of May, where he was nearly necklaced and the necklace was already hung around his neck at Red House where Kalvelha pleaded with the UDF that they should talk to their ...

Today we are going to necklace you - this is your day today, we are going to kill you. That’s what Mr Swanepoel said to me, I kept quiet just looking at them. One of the policemen came in with a box, they placed this box in this room. They opened this box. Mr Swanepoel said I must take off my ...