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necklaceExplanation "Let the racist magistrates and lawyers shout their lungs out in scorn of the necklace method for punishing collaborators. Let them call the attacks on policemen and necklace murders and so forth and they could have been involved and even worse ... 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 ... ... 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. The two groups were vying for the support of the residents. On one occasion the dec eased's group would not allow the applicant's ... ... thing was confusing. We could not understand UDF because we belonged to ANC. We used to say, "You are comrades," and they said, "No, we just use necklace. We are not." That's what they will say. This started 1990 up to the time when they killed him, and they were 20 in number. They call ... I said okay, you see, I can see that it is this Whites who are instructing people to necklace one another. So I feel I should punish corporally those people who are necklacing others. ... forced to give evidence under Section 27 (b) "Chris More summed up the dilemma of black journalists: 'Our fate may as well be written today, the "necklace" (burning tyre around the neck) or "three cents" (a petrol bomb) is what we - and our entire families - can expect if we provide statements ... 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. ... 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 ... 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. a very strong terrorist campaign against the general population of the country with the assistance of the specially limpet mines while the so-called necklace methods of murder were used practically exclusively against Black people. ... There must be determined which groups of people used children to burn down schools, throw stones and then also to do the necklace murders. And in the interest of reconciliation, the TRC must establish this and they must be independent, objective and should not look at different political ... ... were lying or telling the truth I do not know. What I know is his golden watch we didn't find it but as they tell us he had his watch and his gold necklace. We don't know wether these people who murdered him or killed him or whatever come to see them, maybe they know his belongings. Maybe they ... The deceased was then taken by the group, including the Applicant, to Etafeni Hostel where he was burnt to death by the so-called necklace method. The Applicant did not actually participate in the burning of the deceased but stood by as a witness to the whole incident and associated himself with ... ... as a result of people who were being held there who did not agree with the strike, some of these people were killed on the freeway by means of the necklace method and on the basis of that, the decision was taken to blow up COSATU House. When my unit and I during those ten days which were ... ... which Gen Van der Merwe has made in October 1996 and the statistics which has been listed in that submission, one will see for example that necklace murders in 1990, persons killed through that amounted to 48 as opposed to 1989, 12. The statistics of setting alight of persons in 1990, ... In fact is it not solve that perhaps to your knowledge documented cases of people were killed by the necklace method as a consequence of those who have skills to spread the rumor about people being informers. |