Special Report Transcript Episode 48, Section 2, Time 07:34

‘Necklacing.’ // With our necklaces we shall liberate this country! // If necklacing was at any stage part of the struggle doesn’t it in itself defeat the idea of a just war? // On hindsight, if we delayed in the judgement of any person too long, in appealing for the end of this practice and to condemn it, then on hindsight yes, we made a mistake. We should have done it earlier. It had to be reacted to as something that the masses had taken up under conditions of extreme brutalization and repression. And then you sought to channel that energy into proper forms of political action and unity with the armed actions that we were undertaking. So that explains the approach that we had to take. It would be an extremely foolhardy leader of the ANC of 1984, ’85 – ’85 I think is the period of the first necklacing – to have stood up and said this is wrong, out with it. // Was Mrs. Mandela acting as an ANC member during the 1980s and if so, was she subject to any organisational discipline? // It’s correct for me to point out that the late president, Oliver Tambo did send a message home intended to reach comrade Winnie and others, to get them to distance themselves from this method of dealing with enemy agents.

Notes: Winnie Mandela; Hanif Vally; Mac Maharaj; Hanif Vally; Joe Modise