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[US] I. van Kessel Beyond our Wildest Dreams 127: The practice of burning social enemies had spread [...] now taking the gruesome form of necklacing the ‘impimpis’ (suspected informers).
at impimpi, n.
[US] I. van Kessel Beyond Our Wildest Dreams 85: More serious is the fact that the government’s vigilante and kitskonstabel strategy is based on the capacity of the state to recruit rural and unemployed.
at kitskonstabel, n.
[US] I. van Kessel Beyond our Wildest Dreams 127: Several of the alleged witches [...] were also subjected to a necklace execution.
at necklace, n.
[US] I. van Kessel Beyond our Wildest Dreams 41: The rise of the comtsotsis (a confluence of comrades and tsotsis, or township gang members) can be traced to the period of the second emergency. [Ibid.] 202: They had their own network with other gangs of comtsotsis, or comrade gang members, in Soweto.
at tsotsi, n.
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