“After raising her concerns with Minister Masutha, Ms Friedman indicated that she had no objection to the placement of Mr Barnard on parole.” “In reaching the decision to grant parole, Minister Masutha satisfied himself that Mr Barnard has met all requirements for parole.īefore finalising the decision, Masutha personally engaged with Maggie Friedman, the wife of Webster.
The CCB misinformed Mr Barnard and told him that Dr Webster, a pacifist, was involved in terrorist activities. Mr Barnard shot and killed Dr David Webster at the behest of the apartheid police’s security branch, the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB). “One of the two murder charges is in connection with the killing of anti-apartheid activists and Wits University academic Dr David Webster on. Nxumalo said Barnard was sentenced to life imprisonment on June 4, 1998, after being convicted on numerous charges including, murder, attempted murder, defeating the ends of justice and unlawful possession of firearms. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1998 after being convicted on charges including, murder, attempted murder & unlawful possession of firearms.
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Leigh Matthews’ killer Donovan Moodley denied paroleīarnard was given two life terms plus a further 63 years in jail and served time in Pretoria’s Kgosi Mampuru II Prison.įormer CCB operative, Ferdi Barnard, is to be released from prison on parole today. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of another activist, Dullah Omar, who served in both former president Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki’s cabinets. Webster, who was an anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, was gunned down in 1989 outside his home in Troyeville, Johannesburg.Ī decade later, Barnard was convicted of the killing. As well as an anti-apartheid activist, Webster was a Wits University academic.
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WATCH: TRC Episode 81, Part 03 looks into Webster's murder.Former apartheid-era Civil Co-Operation Bureau (CCB) agent Ferdinand Barnard has been released from prison on Tuesday morning after serving more than 20 years for the murder of anti-apartheid activist David Webster, multiple sources have confirmed.īarnard was granted full parole by Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha on March 7 this year.Ĭorrectional service spokesperson Singabhakho Nxumalo confirmed parole was granted for Barnard’s application at the time.īarnard was sentenced to life behind bars in 1998 for the murder of Webster on May 1, 1989. This then led to the reopening of the case. It is said in the archives that prior to his trial, Barnard showed no remorse but in fact bragged about the killing.īernard was a former agent of the Civil Co-Operation Bureau.Ī number of commissions into the killing let Barnard off the hook until in 1996, his then-girlfriend Amore Badenhorst told the _Rapport _newspaper everything Barnard had told her about the murder.īy this time, Barnard was battling a drug addiction and had been using all his money on the habit. But the judge, unable to negotiate his way through the morass of lies and intimidated witnesses, effectively let Barnard off.” At the inquest into the murder two and a half years after the fact, Barnard was again the chief suspect. At least two other commissions also failed. A year after the killing, the Harms Commission failed to get to the bottom of Webster’s death. “Six months later the chief suspect in the killing, Ferdi Barnard was himself detained under the Internal Security Act. However, the road to justice was not easy and it was finally granted almost a decade after the shooting. These are the words from the archival transcripts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings on the killing of anti-apartheid activist David Webster who was murdered outside his house in Johannesburg by Ferdi Barnard.Īfter spending over 20 years in prison, Webster’s killer – Barnard – will be now released on parole, effective next month. JOHANNESBURG - “On a public holiday morning in 1989 he was assassinated outside his home in Troyeville, shot at close range with a shotgun.”
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