Ten years later, towards the end of September 1996, Colonel
Eugene de Kock, a former South African police officer, gave evidence to the Supreme Court in
Pretoria, alleging that Palme had been shot and killed because he "strongly opposed the apartheid regime and Sweden made substantial contributions to the ANC". De Kock went on to claim he knew the person responsible for Palme's murder. He alleged it was
Craig Williamson, a former police colleague and a South African spy. A few days later, former police Captain Dirk Coetzee, who used to work with Williamson, identified Anthony White, a former
Rhodesian Selous Scout with links to the South African security services, as Palme's actual murderer. Then a third person, Swedish mercenary
Bertil Wedin, living in
Northern Cyprus since 1985, was named as the killer by former police Lt. Peter Caselton, who had worked undercover for Williamson.
The 8 September 2010 edition of
Efterlyst, Sweden's equivalent of BBC TV's
Crimewatch programme, was co-hosted by Tommy Lindström, who was the head of Swedish
CID at the time of Olof Palme's assassination. After being asked by Efterlyst's host
Hasse Aro who he believed was behind the assassination of the Prime Minister, Lindström without hesitating pointed to
apartheid South Africa as the number one suspect. And the motive for this, he said, was to stop the payments that the Swedish government secretly paid, through
Switzerland, to the
African National Congress