necklace

"During the evening interrogation, cigarette butts were nipped on my face, an attempt was made to set may hair alight. A tyre was put on my neck and a threat made to necklace me."

... and murder formed the foundation of the activity of the liberation movements. They were motivated by hatred and desire for revenge. The necklace method became popular and was extremely intimidating. There was no tolerance of cooperation between black moderates and the government ...

GEN VILJOEN: There you can see that there has been the increase also in 1986 of the necklace and the murders and the injuries coupled with that and also coupled with that, the burning of people.

Your story is similar in a way to the previous story we've heard. It involves the whole question of the UDF-AZAPO but there is an element of even greater tragedy, the sense of awful killing by necklace and you weren't even there.

"It appears that the deceased was stabbed and shot once with a home-made firearm. He was also set alight by means of the by now well-known necklace method. A tyre was namely put over and tied onto him. Petrol was poured over it and it was set alight. It is not clear however, whether the ...

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.

... 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

... found in the bundle that he said that he did take part in the killing and that the kind of action by the deceased "forced us" including himself, to necklace the deceased and burn him to death. So whatever he's semantically found to be in consistent with that I submit is something that needs to ...

... 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 ...

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.

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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

MR MALAN: You also don't remember anything about a necklace, a chairman of a street committee's court or whatever, who was released on bail?

period of office as the responsible Minister, who were injured and killed in the most gruesome, cruel way imaginable, such as for instance bombs and necklace murders, then I have this feeling that I left them in the lurch and that I didn't give them the necessary ...

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?

"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 ...