tues., 18 jan., 2011, notes towards an extreme political discourse

AFRIKAANS:   halskette   **      
SOTHO, N.:   pheta **   
ZULU:   umgaxo  /  umlengiso  **  

    ** )     “necklace” / “necklacing”  =   placing a petrol-soaked rubber tire around someone’s 
                torso & setting it on fire; orig. by Rhodesian security forces in 1960s & 1970s;  
                spread to S. Africa in mid-1980s & used by all conflicting  factions through early 
                1990s; practice also spread to Haiti, Nigeria & Braz. 
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