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Political Violence In South Africa: A Case Study Of "Necklacing" In Colesberg, Sipho Mbuqe
Political Violence In South Africa: A Case Study Of "Necklacing" In Colesberg, Sipho Mbuqe
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This dissertation examines certain psychological dimensions and implications of political violence in general by means of a specific violent incident that took place in Colesberg, South Africa in 1985. Ms. Nokwakha Dilato was murdered by a group of people who poured gasoline over her body, placed a car tire, filled with gasoline, around her neck and shoulders, and set her alight - a practice known as "necklacing", and which became widespread during that time as a way of killing suspected or confirmed collaborators with the Apartheid regime. Three sources of data about this event were analyzed for this dissertation. First, …