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- verb Present participle of
necklace . - noun South Africa A method of
informal execution in which arubber tyre is filled withpetrol , placed around thevictim 's chest and arms, and set onfire .
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Examples
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HB points to "necklacing" - I suppose to pretend that the ANC dealt as ruthlessly with its political opponents as Hamas does - but this was a very short-lived phenomenon, that was loudly denounced by the ANC leadership, even if briefly supported by the shrill farrago that is Winnie Mandela.
Harry's Place 2009
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HB points to "necklacing" - I suppose to pretend that the ANC dealt as ruthlessly with its political opponents as Hamas does - but this was a very short-lived phenomenon, that was loudly denounced by the ANC leadership, even if briefly supported by the shrill farrago that is Winnie Mandela.
Harry's Place 2009
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HB points to "necklacing" - I suppose to pretend that the ANC dealt as ruthlessly with its political opponents as Hamas does - but this was a very short-lived phenomenon, that was loudly denounced by the ANC leadership, even if briefly supported by the shrill farrago that is Winnie Mandela.
Harry's Place 2009
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States and other African countries to denounce the so-called necklacing inside South Africa.
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Even the horrific, apartheid-era practice of "necklacing" – in which ANC sympathizers placed tires doused in gasoline around the necks of suspected collaborators and set them aflame – returned.
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Professor Asmal is correct that Oliver Tambo wanted the 'necklacing' to stop, driven by the humanism of our struggle and the need to ensure that this struggle did not turn our people into blood-thirsty and mindless brutes with no respect for human life and human dignity.
ANC Today 2007
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Considering the importance of OR's statement on 'necklacing', Helen Suzman sought to have this statement published.
ANC Today 2007
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Cynically, Botha preferred that the 'necklacing' should continue.
ANC Today 2007
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OR thought the presence of many among this leadership at the Harare International Conference on Children provided us with a good opportunity to communicate the message that the entirety of our movement had to intervene to stop the 'necklacing'.
ANC Today 2007
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At the ANC Headquarters in Lusaka, we had discussed the urgent need to call on the masses of our people firmly to repudiate the practice of 'necklacing'.
ANC Today 2007
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