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... 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

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 ...

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?

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

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 ...

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?

... 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 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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

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

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. ...

... 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 ...

"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 ...