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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 ...

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 ...

... 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. ...

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 ...

period of office as the responsible Minister, who were injured and killed in the most gruesome, cruel way imaginable, such as for instance bombs and necklace murders, then I have this feeling that I left them in the lurch and that I didn't give them the necessary ...

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 ...

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 ...

... were lying or telling the truth I do not know. What I know is his golden watch we didn't find it but as they tell us he had his watch and his gold necklace. We don't know wether these people who murdered him or killed him or whatever come to see them, maybe they know his belongings. Maybe they ...

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 ...

... as a result of people who were being held there who did not agree with the strike, some of these people were killed on the freeway by means of the necklace method and on the basis of that, the decision was taken to blow up COSATU House. When my unit and I during those ten days which were ...

... which Gen Van der Merwe has made in October 1996 and the statistics which has been listed in that submission, one will see for example that necklace murders in 1990, persons killed through that amounted to 48 as opposed to 1989, 12. The statistics of setting alight of persons in 1990, ...

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.

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

... issue we address very seriously. We seem to be very good in uniting ourselves when we are going to fight, when we are going to burn schools, or necklace other people, when we are toyi-toying, when we strike for the reduction of work hours and six months' maternity leave, but there is such ...

"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.