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MR LOTZ: During that time there were consumer boycotts, school boycotts, and those actions were the order of the day. The fact that in the eyes of those organisations that human lives meant nothing. I speak under correction, I approximately encountered 120 necklace murders just in Port Elizabeth.

2. THE NECKLACE KILLING OF MANDLA MAZIBUKO IN OR ABOUT JANUARY 1987

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

"It appears that the deceased was stabbed and shot once with a home-made firearm. He was also set alight by means of the by now well-known necklace method. A tyre was namely put over and tied onto him. Petrol was poured over it and it was set alight. It is not clear however, whether the ...

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?

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

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 ...

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?

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.

Mr Hani had said that Whites should be maimed, members of Parliament should be killed, an army should be established and people died, there were necklace murders. Leaders in Kwa Zulu Natal were killed and we realised that at some or other point the focus would be on the Afrikaners and we had to ...

found him they shouldn't suspect that it's Inkatha who killed him. They will think it's the ANC, so let's burn him as they also burn our people and necklace them. Therefore we drained petrol from the car and we poured sand over him and we also poured petrol over him. We burnt him and left ...

After a time they would leave you alone and sit far from you. I don't know whether they had a barbecue or only going on, because I could feel there was a fire going on. And they would say that the fire is not well, the tyre is not well fired up. And I thought they were going to necklace me.

... particular day of the funeral, then on the day that Desmond Tutu was present and he actually saved another man's life because they also wanted to necklace that man. On the following week they were burying certain youths. ...

"This office over the past period received information to the effect that the radical elements in the black community were planning to act against the member in the form of a necklace murder"

... that you were to repossess in terms of the Beauty Salon operations. The jewellery you mention there, how would this help the struggle, taking a necklace and the like, how would this serve the ...

... to be happy, because the comrades through I was the one who gave the influence that my son must be buried during the week. So they promised to necklace me with a tyre. After the funeral I couldn’t go and wash my hands, I had to flee to the Plettenberg Bay, just stayed there for a while and ...

... 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 ...

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.