Township street courts executed alleged traitors by burning tires around their necks

Evidence

With a vengeance that had already started to spread through other parts of South Africa, when the youths caught someone that improvised street courts pronounced a traitor, they commonly filled an automobile tire with kerosene or gasoline (“petrol” in Ashforth’s and Bozzoli’s accounts), hung the tire around the person’s neck, and set her or him on fire. They called the practice “necklacing.” That was the Six Day War, for which Bozzoli assembled revealing hour-by-hour chronologies. After the six days of open street warfare, night vigils, funeral services, and meetings in the streets, in churches, and in Alexandra’s stadium brought much of the community into open resistance. They became displays of militant nationalism. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 606

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 606