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necklaceExplanation ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... After a time they would leave you alone and sit far from you. I don't know whether they had a barbecue or only going on, because I could feel there was a fire going on. And they would say that the fire is not well, the tyre is not well fired up. And I thought they were going to necklace me. ... 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 ... "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 ... 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. ... deceased should be executed. Some petrol and a tyre were collected and the deceased taken into the mountain where he was executed by means of the necklace. After this body was set alight, the crowd fled from the scene. All of the applicants were present throughout the proceedings and played a ... ADV LOURENS: Now, before we proceed with the events on the 15th of April I would like you to explain to the Committee about your involvement in a necklace incident just preceding these events. persons were killed by the necklace method. Were the police - and once again in how many incidents were ... issue we address very seriously. We seem to be very good in uniting ourselves when we are going to fight, when we are going to burn schools, or necklace other people, when we are toyi-toying, when we strike for the reduction of work hours and six months' maternity leave, but there is such ... "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." 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. MR DU PLESSIS: In the first place we did not have any evidence. The people who could give evidence had the fear that as a result of the necklace methods and the intimidations which took place in these areas to such an extent that we did not get any witnesses they were just not prepared to come ... ADV DU PLESSIS: Can you remember any instances of necklace CHAIRPERSON: Such as necklace murders? ... People were running, toyi-toying, chanting "Tambo" and "wajika-jika siyakotha"; the latter song meaning if you do not tell the truth, we burn (necklace) you. The deceased admitted that indeed she bewitched the Mtsweni parents. She named a certain Mahlangu as the person who provided the ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... |