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Special Report Transcript Episode 2, Section 6, Time 09:24The unspoken found a faltering voice: necklacing, the shame of the comrades. Mbulelo Dulato was burned to death for breaking a consumer boycott in Colesburg in 1985. // Can you tell us what you saw what happened? // She was on her way to work, young men approached her. There were five. When they saw her they chased her, she went to hide in another house. They took her out of that house. They took her overall, and they poured her with petrol bomb. One of them held her feet, and then they started igniting her feet. They were beating her up. They beat her up and they put a tyre on her. There was nobody who could stop this. Notes: Colesburg necklacing; Commissioner; TRC testimony: Thozama Maliti (victim’s cousin) Was assaulted and set alight by named UDF supporters in Colesberg, Cape, on 2 October 1985, after she had allegedly broken a consumer boycott of white-owned shops. She died in hospital on 9 October 1985 and could not be buried in the town due to hostility from the community. One UDF supporter was ... |