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necklaceExplanation Committee and the South African Council of Churches. Apart from that supporters of ANC/SACP alliance by means of intimidation where the well-known necklace method played a very big role, they used this in order to dominate the black townships within the ... ... I don't know if you have this before you, it is a document which is relatively well-known to the TRC, on these pages he has drawn up a table of necklace murders, the statistics pertaining to necklace murders and then also on page 19, setting alight of persons. I just want to mention to you ... MR NIEUWOUDT: It lead to total unrest, the burning of all third tier government buildings, council members were burnt by means of the necklace method, attacks on policemen and several policemen were also killed by means of the necklace method. And all government institutions were totally destroyed. a. In Sechaba Mr Chris Hani wrote that "the necklace was a weapon ... to remove this cancer (of collaborators) from our society ... to cleanse the townships from the very disruptive and even lethal activities of the puppets and collaborators. I refuse to condemn our people when they mete out ... platter and when I went to them to inform them they grabbed my brother and they murdered him in the most cruellest fashion. My brother is the first necklace victim of the African National Congress in 1981, in June in ... this office has received information that the radical elements in the Black townships plan to act against the member, which is you, in the form of a necklace murder. That is what this letter says. Is this letter wrong or is it ... ... But as in during the trial proceedings, the regime had made it very clear, that anyone who is found guilty of any crime that relates to arson, necklace, all those acts that they were rendering barbaric, horrendous or whatever term that they used at the time, would ultimately get the maximum ... MS MOKGOKONG: We left - He informed me that: "If you can reveal what we're going to do, we're going to necklace you." MS MOKGOKONG: We left - He informed me that: "If you can reveal what we're going to do, we're going to necklace you." MR BELLINGAN: Well Chairperson, if they didn't shoot him like we shot him, they would have killed him by means of the necklace method. ... marijuana, that is dagga and apart from factual evidence, like Mrs Mandela's earlier statement that the ANC would liberate the country with the necklace method, a statement which would be used with great effect in a Stratcom ... And it was under pressure from the ANC in order to get people who committed necklace murders, in order to get people who were found guilty of planting the bomb in Magoos Bar etc, etc, released from jail and getting them amnesty, where they made it an absolute pre-condition that unless we did it we ... ... positively and said yes, he is responsible. Mr Frans Magutla and Mr Joseph Pirie, that is Mr Philemon Masetla, should be executed through the necklace style and nobody responded to ... violations of human rights on both sides of the spectrum. Onthe side of the ANC/SACP alliance, as well as the PAC the well-knownexamples of the necklace murders, consumer boycotts, school boycotts,strikes, arson, group murders, uprisings and riots in generalcan be clearly recalled by anyone who ... arson, sabotage, unrest, murders, necklace murders, strikes and various forms of intimidation committed CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MS VILAKAZI: ; Thank you Mr Chairperson. Mr Ntshabeleng, who ordered you to kill the deceased, to necklace the deceased? ... were fighting against the Cubans. Sure there was a war going on, they were being killed they were being shot to bits, bloodshed was all around us, necklace murders, security force action, in the midst of draconian security legislation which affected the journalists. Now without the hindsight ... MR ERASMUS: Well on of the writers referred to a necklace murder which would be committed against Mr Ngo, that was the threat. ... together what we got from the scene, when he asked him "where is the jewellery". It was not, it was a watch or two and some rings and a pearl ... MR VISSER: I speak from what I read in the newspapers and not from the report itself. However, just to get back to the issue of intimidation and pressure by other organisations and the ANC you, in Natal, had to deal with necklace murders? |