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MR HUGO: And may I just refer you again to Exhibit J, you don't have to read it, but there you refer to a necklace as well, "'n hangertjie", that was given to you as a gift. Was that also in fact what happened?

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.

... 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 ...

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 ...

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?

... 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 ...

tyre was put around his neck. The aim of our actions was never to necklace an activist.

Now let us not concern ourselves with the dates and the places and names of other people. Your application there states that you make application for amnesty in respect of murder by means of a necklace three times. Is that correct?

... 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 ...

aangebied deur Themba Hector deurloop erens in die Kaapstad omgewing. Hy was verantwoordelik vir minstens drie terreur dade in die Guguletu omgewing sowel as verskeie voorvalle waarin huise afgebrand is en persone deur middel van die necklace metode gedood is.

And then page 18, which refers certain statistics regarding necklace murders, and here I would like to point out the following:

MRS NQIQHI: No. At that time he was in jail for having stabbed Tando Sisant in the neck. He was sentenced to six months' he was at St. Alberts and I used to go there and tell him about the situation where the people were being murdered by necklace.

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 ...

MR ERASMUS: Well on of the writers referred to a necklace murder which would be committed against Mr Ngo, that was the threat.

... hand grenades, limpet mines and car bomb explosions and people were killed by the most abhorrent methods imaginable such as for instance the necklace method and all these things were the order of the day. The tragedy was that innocent South Africans were usually the victims of this. ...

MS MOKGOKONG: We left - He informed me that: "If you can reveal what we're going to do, we're going to necklace you."

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...