Johan Theron

Johan Theron (born c. 1943) was a former information officer in South Africa's apartheid government's Special Forces. Theron testified before South Africa's High Court during the trial of Wouter Basson for human rights crimes. Theron told the court that he had personally caused or supervised the murders of over 200 anti-apartheid political prisoners between 1979 and 1987. He claimed that the murders were merely a part of his job.

At the conclusion of the Wouter Basson trial in 2002, the presiding magistrate, Justice Hatzenburg, refused to grant Johan Theron indemnity from prosecution.^[1] Subsequent to the Basson trial, Theron never bothered to apply for amnesty from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) ^[2] as he was never formally charged with the crimes he claimed to have committed.

^ Trial Report: Sixty-Three - Report on the judgement in The State vs Wouter Basson delivered on 11 April 2002 Archived 25 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Mampara of the week 7th May 2000". Archived from the original on 28 August 2002. Retrieved 15 July 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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[1] Trial Report: Sixty-Three - Report on the judgement in The State vs Wouter Basson delivered on 11 April 2002 Archived 25 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Mampara of the week 7th May 2000". Archived from the original on 28 August 2002. Retrieved 15 July 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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