Webster, an anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and anti-apartheid activist, was shot on 1 May 1989 outside his house in Troyeville, Johannesburg. Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) operative Ferdi Barnard was found guilty of Websters murder in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Material covers the murder, the investigations and Barnards trial. There is also a list of assassinations of South African political activists from 1974 to 1989.
Reports about amnesty applications including police and right-wing applicants and Adriaan Vlok (previously Minister of Law and Order). Opinions on disclosure and the amnesty process. Steve Biko, Ashley Kriel, the Vlakplaas murders are mentioned.
Includes SIM Special No 10, Report of the International Conference, Refugees in the World, The European Community's Response, The Hague 7- 8 December 1989.
