Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The term "necklace" originated in the 1980s in black townships of apartheid South Africa where suspected apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this ...

2018年5月19日 · The weapon for some in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement was "necklacing", which was essentially death by tire fire. The primary targets of necklacing interestingly were not white men, but for those deemed as traitors to the black community.

Maki Skosana (c. 1961 – July 20, 1985) was a black South African woman who was burned to death and the footage broadcast live on South Africa's state-run television. She was killed by a mob of anti-apartheid activists who suspected her of being an informant. Her death by "necklacing" elicited outrage beyond the nation. [1]

1992年6月21日 · A kangaroo court murdered three 17-year-old blacks by the necklace method in Kwamashu township near the port of Durban last week. A fourth escaped and is in the hospital. The ``necklace'' - placing a gasoline-soaked tire around a victim's neck and setting it on fire - has re-emerged in South Africa's black townships as a favored way to ...

2024年12月23日 · Here’s how it works: Take a rubber tire, fill it with gasoline, slip it over the victim’s shoulders like an oversized necklace, and set it ablaze. In minutes, the flames consume flesh, leaving behind a grotesque symbol of vengeance. Necklacing first emerged in the 1980s as apartheid’s chokehold on Black South Africans tightened.

2020年7月19日 · In Africa, ‘necklace execution‘ is a very common type of Lynch trial. A car tire or several tires are put on the victim and set on fire. The victim screams terribly and suffers, which is what we observe in this video. Usually, the executed person is stoned.

2023年11月13日 · With the whole world watching through the eyes of cameras, they dragged her out of the funeral, forced a tire over her shoulders, and burned her alive. A few months later, she was found innocent. South Africans call this necklacing. A public execution reserved for traitors.

1990年5月3日 · The ``necklace'' murder has returned to South Africa, with two children its latest victims. Despite pleas from black leaders, the execution of political enemies by setting fire to a gasoline-doused tire suspended from the victim's neck has re-emerged in recent months.

1988年3月18日 · The pre-dawn hanging of Tsepo Letsoara, 24, took place without fanfare. He was convicted of the “necklace” murder of a black woman--placing a gasoline-soaked tire around her neck and setting...

The callous murder of South Africa's first "necklace" victim, Maki Skosana, in the East Rand township of Duduza in July 1985 was examined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's human rights violation committee on Tuesday.