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TRC Final Report
Page Number (Original) 22
Volume 5
Chapter 1 Subsection 10
| ASSOCIATED VIOLATIONS | CODE | DEFINITION | | Beating | BEATING | Person is beaten, but it is not a severe or prolonged beating. It includes once-off mild beating, specifying if in custody or if victim is pregnant or miscarried. | | Violation after death | CORPSE | Body of victim violated after death, for example by improper burial, body mutilated or burnt or blown up, funeral restrictions, funeral disruption, anonymous burial, mass grave. | | Deprivation | DEPRIVE | Deprivation of facilities or essentials, for example medical attention, food, water, sanitary facilities, privacy, family visits. | | Destruction of property | DESTROY | Includes violations such as arson, destruction, vandalism, theft, forced removal, eviction. | | Financial impropriety | FINANCIAL | Subjection to bribery, extortion, pay-off, ransom, blackmail, ruin of business. | | Framing | FRAMING | Labelling as an informer, collaborator (impimpi) or criminal, false information is spread about the person, or a smear campaign against the person is started. | | Incarceration imprisonment | INCARCERAT | Includes police custody, detention, house arrest, or restrictions, banning, banishment, prison, informal prison. | | Intimidation or harassment | INTIMIDATE | Intimidation or harassment by dismissal from work, threats, animals killed, visits, telephone calls, surveillance, boycott enforcement, pointing of firearms (not in custody), threat of violence. It does not include vandalism or arson. These come under Destruction of Property. | | Other type of associated violation | OTHER | All other types of associated violations, including released into hostile environment, released into unknown place, left for dead, rough ride, detention of family or loved ones. | | Sexual harassment | SEXUAL | Person is sexually harassed. It includes: threats of rape, touching, nakedness, sexual comments or insults, sexual enticement, deprivation of sanitary facilities for menstruation. | | Petrol bombing | PETROL BOMB | Severely injured by a burning bottle of petrol. Also called Molotov Cocktail. | | Professional misconduct | PROFESS | Subjection to professional misconduct by one of the following: health professionals (including doctors, nurses, orderlies, clinicians, district surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists and others) who neglect or ignore injuries, collaborate in torture, or conceal the cause of death or injuries; judiciary (magistrates, judges etc.) who ignore torture allegations, for example; police who neglect the case, ignore or tamper with evidence; lawyers who neglect the case, ignore or tamper with evidence, misappropriate funds or fail to hand over damages; businesses which collaborate with perpetrators. | | Teargassed | TEARGAS | Victim is teargassed, but not while in custody (see torture). | | Theft or stealing | THEFT | Money or possessions stolen from the victim. | Glossary of Terms Necklacing refers to the practice of placing a car tyre around the neck of a victim and setting it alight. A panga is a large knife with a flat blade (used for cane cutting). An assegai is a spear, either short for stabbing or long for throwing. A bakkie is a light truck or van with a cabin and open back. Hippos and Casspirs are armoured personnel carriers. A sjambok is a whip. An impimpi is an informer or spy. The ‘helicopter’ technique refers to a method of torture where a victim was suspended from the ceiling, with hands and feet shackled to a stick, and spun around. The ‘invisible chair’ technique refers to a method of torture where a victim was forced to pretend to sit on a chair while being interrogated.
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