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 87, section 2, starting at: 18:30

... and the national director of investigations, Glen Goosen resigned over clashes with his boss, Dumisa Ntsebeza. Cases like the murder of David Webster should have been cracked by the unit but in this instance the justice system has showed up the shortcomings of the Truth Commission. The ...

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

... time however Ferdi Barnard was bragging about it. According to the evidence so far Barnard used to tell acquaintances that heâ€™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 81, section 3, starting at: 14:07

David Webster was not one of the struggleâ€™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 64, section 2, starting at: 03:33

Anti apartheid activist, David Webster is gunned down in front of his Johannesburg home. The Harms Commission of inquiry, tasked to find Websterâ€™s killers, failed to do so as it failed to find evidence of police hit squads. But even the blundering Mr. Justice Louis Harms launched this ...

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Transcript of episode 64, section 2, starting at: 07:12

... and without fear of prosecution. But this week, the Transvaal Attorney-General pounced on Ferdi Barnard and arrested him for the murder of David Webster. According to the indictment the man who was with him in the car on the day he pulled the trigger was his friend and former Transvaal rugby ...

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Transcript of episode 81, section 1, starting at: 00:42

... of the Truth Commission process in todayâ€™s Special Report: brutality, forgiveness and justice. We focus on two assassinations today, David Webster and Anton Lubowski, and not surprisingly the same characters appear in both dramas. We also look at what that old charmer Desmond Tutu did on ...

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Transcript of episode 64, section 2, starting at: 00:29

... The CCB was in the news twice this week, with the arrest of one of its operatives, Ferdi Barnard, on charges including the murder of activist David Webster and with the refusal of CCB members Joe Verster, Slang van Zyl and Wouter Basson to give evidence to the Truth Commission about their ...

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