It was one crime too many for New Brighton. Two men broke into an elderly woman's home, stole her television, and then stabbed her tenant to death when he tried to protect her. So the next morning, ...

Thamsanqa D Malinga is director at Mkabayi Management Consultants; a writer, columnist, and political commentator, as well as author of Blame Me on Apartheid and A Dream Betrayed. Growing up in the ...

Earlier this year, South African townships were rocked by incidents of necklacing - mob-justice punishment in which tyres are forced over victims' shoulders and set alight. Is this notorious form of ...

Port Elizabeth - It was one crime too many for New Brighton. Two men broke into an elderly woman's home, stole her television, and then stabbed her tenant to death when he tried to protect her. So the ...

Simon Mynekeni is one of the most recent victims of necklacing, a brutal apartheid-era practise of putting a tyre around someone’s neck, dousing it in petrol and setting it alight. It’s a horrible way ...

At the height of the struggle against apartheid, many people were killed in what was termed necklacing - putting a tyre around a person's neck and setting it alight. Most of those who suffered this ...

VIGILANTE RESIDENTS in Cape Town’s largest township have turned to the apartheid-era practice of “necklacing” to tackle criminals in their community. The locals say they have adopted the brutal ...

"Necklacing is a result of the unfulfilled promises to and continued socio-economic inequality of the people. In order to get what they want, they feel they need to take the law into their own hands.

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