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necklaceExplanation 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 ... CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MS VILAKAZI: ; Thank you Mr Chairperson. Mr Ntshabeleng, who ordered you to kill the deceased, to necklace the deceased? MS MOKGOKONG: We left - He informed me that: "If you can reveal what we're going to do, we're going to necklace you." arson, sabotage, unrest, murders, necklace murders, strikes and various forms of intimidation committed ... 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 ... MS MOKGOKONG: We left - He informed me that: "If you can reveal what we're going to do, we're going to necklace you." May Ledwaba, also known as Squish, was the target of the attack. At the time of the incident he was an accused in a necklace murder trial, out on bail. Nobody was prepared to give evidence for the State and as it turned out the matter never proceeded to trial. May Ledwaba, according to ... ... was targeted. Strikes and labour action were used to increase pressure on the Government. Throughout 1984 and 1985 the spectre of the necklace killing came into its own. People identified as being in the opposition camp, many were killed by means of this necklace, where a car tyre ... Dumisani, in your statement here you said you were taken. They wanted to put a tyre on you. What saved you that they didn't necklace you? --- Maybe I can start by saying that a number of times they didn't end up by chopping off my brother. They also took the rim of a car and broke his legs ... ... My question was that it came during the evidence in court that you robbed him. I think it was an amount of R100,00, if I'm not mistaken or a necklace or a watch worth R100,00, and necklace. Now my question was that - and you were convicted of that robbery in court. And now I was saying ... MR DUMA: At the time, there were many incidents of necklace murders. Chairperson, at the time necklace murders were rife and I was shot while my cousin who was being harassed by police and his girlfriend was pregnant and I was staying with his girlfriend who was pregnant, who was due to deliver at ... ... killed during unrest related incidents; 9280. Death or injury through burning in unrest related incidents, September '84 to December '89, death by necklace methods; 406, injured by necklace method; 28, death by other burnings; 395, injured by other burnings; 150. ... very slim indeed. Necklace murders were the order of the day. It was a call by the ANC, "necklace the ... on killing them, that was a common practice, because it was a common ANC practice to burn these people on killing them. The UDF would equally necklace people, this was not a common Inkatha practice, it was mainly the practice within the ANC, to necklace ... December 1986, a report of an interview with Mr Chris Hani, under the caption 25 years of armed struggle and listen to what he says. He says so the necklace was a weapon devised by the oppressed themselves to remove this cancer from our society. The cancer of collaborators of the puppets. It is ... local authorities were seriously disrupted; 573 people were killed in black-on-black violence, including 295 people who were burned to death by the necklace method. ... Yesterday when I was listening some other people who had taken forcibly that was happening. It was true, it was so much so that I can't run away from the fact that we in the UDF didn't use the necklace, but it was not only the UDF that used it, it was used, but I can't deny that. ... is daar heeltemal 'n beskrywing en die artikel is geskryf deur David B Ottoway, van Washington Post Foreign Service,l word, die hele sogenaamde "necklace", halsnoermoord word daarso beskrywe. (Onduidelik) duidelik uit, en ek meen dit het die buitelande het dit raakgesien daar, dat heeltemal ... ... he was killed eventually. All that was said that was relevant to the incident in 1986 by Mr Goosen, was that at that stage he was an accused in a necklace, but no there wasn't evidence that he was out on bail. In fact there was no trial, so I, that is the closest we can come to it. I just ... ... and knives. They had all the weapons you can think of that are dangerous except for guns, and they had car tyres around their necks which is a necklace symbol, in the past. They said we are selling them out as leadership and we are selling them out to our killers. They threatened to attack ... |