[DEBATE] : Convicted apartheid assassin Ferdi Barnard applies for pardon, SABC

[Dominic Tweedie]

Convicted apartheid assassin applies for pardon


SABC, 21 January 2008, 13:30

Former CCB operative and convicted apartheid assassin, Ferdi Barnard,
is applying for a presidential pardon.

The amnesty window for people applying for a presidential pardon - for
alleged political offences - started last week and ends on April 15.
The window period for applications was announced by President Thabo
Mbeki in Parliament in November.

A Multi-Party Reference Group will consider applications for pardons
and will make recommendations to the President. People convicted of
committing alleged political offences before 16 June 1999 will be able
to apply for a Presidential pardon.

Those who were refused amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC) will not qualify. Barnard was convicted in 1998 of,
among other crimes, murdering anti-apartheid activist David Webster
and attempting to murder former Justice Minister Dullah Omar.

He has been in prison for 10 years already and has married while
serving his sentence. Barnard's advocate, Faan Coetzee, says his
client already applied for a presidential pardon in 2002. He will now
file supplementary papers to the President before the end of the week.

Under the Apartheid government, the South African Civil Cooperation
Bureau (CCB) was a covert, special forces organisation whose
objectives were to eliminate anti-apartheid activists throughout the
world and to destroy ANC facilities both inside and outside South
Africa.

From: http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,162812,00.html

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