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necklaceExplanation ... on policemen during those years of conflict. Apart from that, 505 people, who were seen as collaborators of the police were killed by using the necklace method while a further 710 were burnt to ... 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. ... ... found in the bundle that he said that he did take part in the killing and that the kind of action by the deceased "forced us" including himself, to necklace the deceased and burn him to death. So whatever he's semantically found to be in consistent with that I submit is something that needs to ... ... my school books of the ANC colours and I had also written verses and poem on these colours and there were also certain badges of Steve Biko and a necklace with ANC beads and so on. And he said that as a result of all these things which he found in my possession they were now charging me with ... ADV BOOYENS: One of the aspects that you say was discussed was the death of three policemen that were burnt to death. Were they burnt to death with the necklace method in Zwide? ... to discuss alleged conspiracies to burn policemen's houses, the deceased's group branded the applicant's group as sell-outs and threatened to "necklace" them. Each group was vying for the support of the residents. On one occasion the deceased's group would not allow the applicant's group ... attacks on policemen and necklace murders and so forth and they could have been involved and even worse ... Kwamadala Hostel from buying at shops in the location. That hurt us very much when we discovered that they would actually attack our comrades and necklace them, that is what the people in the township did. As far as I can tell, I think that was the cause of the conflict because if a person was ... These informers were dealt with severely. Even those who were suspected of being informers of the security forces were burnt with petrol and a tyre being put around the body. This came to be known as the 'necklace' method of killing. 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 ... ... 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 ... CHAIRPERSON: Such as necklace murders? MR DU PLESSIS: In the first place we did not have any evidence. The people who could give evidence had the fear that as a result of the necklace methods and the intimidations which took place in these areas to such an extent that we did not get any witnesses they were just not prepared to come ... Your story is similar in a way to the previous story we've heard. It involves the whole question of the UDF-AZAPO but there is an element of even greater tragedy, the sense of awful killing by necklace and you weren't even there. ... and murder formed the foundation of the activity of the liberation movements. They were motivated by hatred and desire for revenge. The necklace method became popular and was extremely intimidating. There was no tolerance of cooperation between black moderates and the government ... 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. ... People were running, toyi-toying, chanting "Tambo" and "wajika-jika siyakotha"; the latter song meaning if you do not tell the truth, we burn (necklace) you. The deceased admitted that indeed she bewitched the Mtsweni parents. She named a certain Mahlangu as the person who provided the ... perceived to be - in some cases with justification, other cases I presume not - to be collaborators of the system, we're talking about the notorious necklace murders and so on. Would you agree that in certain areas the - and I'm looking at it from the eyes of the government now, in certain areas ... 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 ... 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 ... |