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necklaceExplanation local authorities were seriously disrupted; 573 people were killed in black-on-black violence, including 295 people who were burned to death by the necklace method. ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... ... 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." "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 ... 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... CHAIRPERSON: Such as necklace murders? 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. 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 ... |