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Special Report Transcript Episode 7, Section 4, Time 19:46It is not too difficult to understand the paranoia and lack of discipline in the years that township anger and frustration really boiled over. Necklacing was something completely different. Between January 1984 and June 1987 at least 350 people died with a tyre around their neck. // Benedict Marenene’s father, Patrick was a community councillor in Bongulethu. In November 1985 Benedict was twelve years old. // I saw my father coming back from work, when I looked around the township I heard the toyi-toyi sound. I ran towards him to meet him. To advise him not to get into the township. And he said, no they won’t do anything to me, because there’s nothing I’ve done. As he was coming to the corner of Four, the toyi-toyiers were coming. He was carrying the gun, but he was someone who had never shot at any person. He shot in the air and then people were chasing him. And he was facing the people but moving back, sort of retreating. As he was retreating he was tripped by another coloured and I was next to him, when this coloured tackled him. He was caught. When they caught him Desmond [inaudible] was there. When my father was on the ground they gave him a blow with an axe on the neck, and they put a tyre around his neck. Notes: Necklacing; TRC testimony: Benedict Marenene (son) References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims GlossaryVigilantes in Ciskei 260 Over the years, the Ciskei authorities used vigilantes on several occasions. Haysom records the first use of vigilantes in Ciskei as being during 1974, when the vigilantes known as the ‘Green Berets’, who were members of the ruling Ciskei National Independence Party ... External violations 10 While few statements were been received from deponents and victims outside South Africa, it has been argued that the majority of victims of gross violations of human rights were in fact residing outside the country’s borders at the time the violations were committed. One ... Violations committed by resistance and revolutionary groupings Killing of ‘collaborators’: stabbings, necklacings and burnings 282 Around seventy cases of necklacing or burning were reported between 1985 and 198938, mostly in 1985 (thirteen cases) and 1986 (forty-eight cases). Most ... Necklacing 518 The necklace became a terrible symbol of the brutalisation of political conflict in South Africa during the mid-1980s and claimed at least 400 lives. Most of the victims were alleged informers, although councillors, police, and chiefs were also vulnerable to this sort of attack. ... Resistance and revolutionary groupings 497 As the conflict deepened and escalated during the mid 1980s, gross human rights violations became increasingly generalised, drawing in an ever-widening range of sectors, organisations and individuals as perpetrators. The ANC, MK and individuals ... |
