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Anti-apartheid activist Dr. David Webster is assassinated

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Date: 1 May, 1989

David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and an anti-apartheid activist is shot dead by apartheid security forces. Ferdi Barnard was accused of killing him. David Webster was assassinated outside his home in Johannesburg.

References:

  1. http://www.suntimes.co.za/2004/02/15/news/gauteng/njhb09.asp