Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace" murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.

2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution

2004 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?

Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.

2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin
Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced, and their houses have been destroyed

2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.

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