Reuters
Published: March 18, 1996
JOHANNESBURG, March 17— A pet baboon suspected of being a witch in disguise was killed by "necklacing" by South African villagers, a Johannesburg newspaper reported today.
A crowd of about 150 people caught the baboon as it passed through their village near the popular Kruger National Park game reserve, beat it with metal poles, soaked it with gasoline and put a burning tire around its body, The Sunday Times said. "Necklacing" with burning tires was a type of punishment meted out in South African townships to suspected black collaborators with the former white apartheid government.