WEBSTER, David

Age 43

Description
A UDF supporter and Wits academic who was shot dead by a Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) operative on 1 May 1989 outside his home in Troyeville, Johannesburg. The operative, later convicted of his killing, did not apply for amnesty. A Witwatersrand Security Branch operative was granted amnesty for harassing Dr Webster and others during a political gathering in 1985 (AC/2001/0184).

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Transcript of episode 81, section 3, starting at: 14:07

David Webster was not one of the struggle’s public figures. He put his energies into helping individuals jailed and tortured by the apartheid state. He organized support groups for their families and campaigned against detention without trial.

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Transcript of episode 9, section 3, starting at: 23:21

... ‘It was consistent with the patterns of the past. Scores of assassinations remain unsolved. Richard Turner, Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, David Webster, Ruth First and Dulcie September are but a ...

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Transcript of episode 21, section 6, starting at:

out’ is an organisation run entirely by and for the victims and families of victims of human rights violations. Maggie Friedman’s partner, David Webster was shot dead in front of their Troyeville house in 1989. // I became involved in the setting up of Khulumani at the beginning of 1995, a ...

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Transcript of episode 81, section 3, starting at: 15:41

... mean time however Ferdi Barnard was bragging about it. According to the evidence so far Barnard used to tell acquaintances that he’d shot David Webster in order to make himself sound like a big man or he would tell girlfriends about it in order to justify his ...

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Transcript of episode 3, section 3, starting at: 14:10

The list is much longer than Onkgopotse, Tiro and David Webster. Most of these assassinations were planned and executed by military and police death squads in Gauteng. Like Vlakplaas and Daisy, its counterpart for foreign operations, and the CCB base on a small holding near Pretoria. Much is known ...

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Transcript of episode 3, section 1, starting at: 00:19

... week delved deep in the worst evils of our past, like the assassination of activists. In tonight’s report we look at the assassinations of David Webster, Abram Tiro, Beki Mlangeni, Jeanette and Katryn Schoon, Ruth First and Dulcie September, and the bomb attack on Albie Sachs, and death in ...

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Transcript of episode 81, section 4, starting at: 21:04

Only four months after the assassination of David Webster the most prominent white member of the Namibian liberation movement, Anton Lubowski, was shot and killed in front of his house in Windhoek. One of the men who conspired to kill him, Irish citizen Donald Acheson, was arrested soon after the ...

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