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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 ...

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.

... 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 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.

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 ...

... and knives. They had all the weapons you can think of that are dangerous except for guns, and they had car tyres around their necks which is a necklace symbol, in the past. They said we are selling them out as leadership and we are selling them out to our killers. They threatened to attack ...

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.

CHAIRPERSON: Such as necklace murders?

... 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.

... 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 ...

"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."

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 ...

... 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 ...

CHAIRPERSON: Before we go onto that, I don’t know about the accuracy of this Mr Richard. It’s a newspaper report of a police statement that he was detained in 1986 in connection with an allegation of attempted murder. The attempted necklace murder of a woman teacher. Did you know that?

at a bus, if one has a look at Item 4, arson - three houses burnt down; Item 7 - public violence and Sergeant Wehbag was injured; Item 8 there was a necklace murder; Item 11 there was arson; Item 12 attack on the house of one Kart Msango; Item 13 people were shot at while in church; Item 14 three ...

The notorious necklace method, which is even more cruel than anything the Nazis did, was used to kill many people who were seen as collaborators. The police were regarded as hard targets which could be killed at will. More and more people became victims of violence. People in black townships ...

ADV DU PLESSIS: Can you remember any instances of necklace

perceived to be - in some cases with justification, other cases I presume not - to be collaborators of the system, we're talking about the notorious necklace murders and so on. Would you agree that in certain areas the - and I'm looking at it from the eyes of the government now, in certain areas ...