She had been at the funeral of four activists who had died in a booby-trap ambush set up by the apartheid police’s security branch. For various reasons some mourners identified her as a police informer who had been involved in the deaths, and decided to kill her.
She was chased across the cemetery into a field and when the mob caught up with her, they proceeded to administer the brutal necklace execution. A tyre was placed around her neck, petrol was poured over her and she was set alight.
