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necklaceExplanation ... 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. ... And then page 18, which refers certain statistics regarding necklace murders, and here I would like to point out the following: ... 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 ... MR ERASMUS: Well on of the writers referred to a necklace murder which would be committed against Mr Ngo, that was the threat. MS MOKGOKONG: We left - He informed me that: "If you can reveal what we're going to do, we're going to necklace you." 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 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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. ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... very slim indeed. Necklace murders were the order of the day. It was a call by the ANC, "necklace the ... my school books of the ANC colours and I had also written verses and poem on these colours and there were also certain badges of Steve Biko and a necklace with ANC beads and so on. And he said that as a result of all these things which he found in my possession they were now charging me with ... ... Kwamadala Hostel from buying at shops in the location. That hurt us very much when we discovered that they would actually attack our comrades and necklace them, that is what the people in the township did. As far as I can tell, I think that was the cause of the conflict because if a person was ... These informers were dealt with severely. Even those who were suspected of being informers of the security forces were burnt with petrol and a tyre being put around the body. This came to be known as the 'necklace' method of killing. "Large scale intimidation was used to try and prevent the SAP from operating efficiently. The notorious necklace method which is even more cruel than anything the Nazis did was used to kill many people who were seen to be collaborators. The police were regarded as hard targets which could be ... ... we are fighting apartheid. So we didn't say no, it is not proper, because at that time when you say it is not proper, they will promise you a ... |