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Captain Jooste then a Warrant Officer, served with me for a short period at Guguletu. I was assigned to Guguletu to investigate the murders, mostly necklace murders and other violence that occurred in Guguletu during ...

"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 ...

... to discuss alleged conspiracies to burn policemen's houses, the deceased's group branded the applicant's group as sell-outs and threatened to "necklace" them. Each group was vying for the support of the residents. On one occasion the deceased's group would not allow the applicant's group ...

ADV BOOYENS: One of the aspects that you say was discussed was the death of three policemen that were burnt to death. Were they burnt to death with the necklace method in Zwide?

attacks on policemen and necklace murders and so forth and they could have been involved and even worse

... 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 ...

... old, of collaboration and failure to stand up to the oppressors. Terrible methods of punishing supposed informers developed, such as the infamous "necklace". Many women were victims of these forms of violence. Political and sexual conflict may have been played out in some of these cases where ...

MR SAMUEL: It is far fetched Your Worship because we cannot find the necklace between the death of Bhekumuzi Zondi and the death of Mr Letsonyana, but be that as it may, I would still urge this Honourable Commission to consider the motive. It is quite clear that the applicant in this matter had ...

And there were necklace murders. People had been actually driven out of the townships. The policemen and here I am specifically referring to black policemen at the time, some of them had also been driven out of their communities and they had to find homes elsewhere.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

MR MNISI: I wasn't going to injure anyone. We were burning it so that we could see the road ahead, we were not going to necklace anyone.

... 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 ...

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

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.

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.