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"Large scale intimidation was used to try and prevent the SAP from operating efficiently. The notorious necklace method which is even more cruel than anything the Nazis did was used to kill many people who were seen to be collaborators. The police were regarded as hard targets which could be ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

because we didn't warn them. One of them was Dumbana, the Chairperson of AZAPO. His story is in the Herald of the 21st of May, where he was nearly necklaced and the necklace was already hung around his neck at Red House where Kalvelha pleaded with the UDF that they should talk to their ...

he was interrogated, and then only comes the cigarette butts nipped in his face and an attempt was made to set his hair alight, and he spoke about a necklace. ...

There were statements from 11 year olds and 17 year olds who were involved in necklace murders, acts of

... on policemen during those years of conflict. Apart from that, 505 people, who were seen as collaborators of the police were killed by using the necklace method while a further 710 were burnt to ...

Today we are going to necklace you - this is your day today, we are going to kill you. That’s what Mr Swanepoel said to me, I kept quiet just looking at them. One of the policemen came in with a box, they placed this box in this room. They opened this box. Mr Swanepoel said I must take off my ...

... old, of collaboration and failure to stand up to the oppressors. Terrible methods of punishing supposed informers developed, such as the infamous "necklace". Many women were victims of these forms of violence. Political and sexual conflict may have been played out in some of these cases where ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

The ANC/SACP alliance on the other hand, unchained forces which could not be controlled, and this led to necklace murders along with the death and mutilation of defenceless citizens.

MR WILLS: Now also in 1990 and I’m referring to paragraph 6, you witnessed a person being killed by the necklace method, this Mzwimdoda Nzamande, and you believe that he was killed by the ANC, is that right?

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 ...