Steven Webb

To date, I have written four books. Two of them were autobiographies revolving around my military service and my career as a paramedic. The second editions of these books are available on Amazon and are titled 'Combat Medic' and 'Paramedics: Lights and Sirens' respectively.

The other two books, 'The Helderberg Conspiracy' and 'The Death of Dag Hammarskjöld', were books written out of curiosity. These two accidents have been broadcast in various television documentaries over the years, and it was from watching these documentaries that aroused that curiosity. The secretary general's plane crash, for example, was attributed to the pilots losing sight of the airfield behind a hill. I know Zambia very well and knew there were no hills, so if they got that crucial fact wrong, what else did they get wrong? On investigation, assumptions were made based on very little evidence, and other evidence that should have been taken into consideration wasn't. It is only now that the United Nations has, in the latest report from October 2024, started to come around to the fact that there could have been other factors in play that were anything but malicious in nature. But after 64 years, how long will it still take for them to close this case?

The Helderberg accident has been plagued with accusations of cover-ups by the South African government, by South African Airways, and the Board of Investigation, but no one seems to have ever questioned Boeing's part in this accident too closely. Accusations of sanction busting or arms smuggling, and, in some people's view, the murder of 159 people. Yet once again, very little evidence has ever been brought forward to corroborate these claims. Most evidence points to the crash being an accident.

It was my pleasure and honour to have been invited in March 2024 to take part in a documentary on the Helderberg, which was aired on South African TV (MNet and Showmax) in May 2025 in a three part series. There is also a three part accompanying podcast available on YouTube and on Spotify.

Both incidents, even though they happened 64 (Hammarskjold) and 38 years ago (Helderberg), are still shrouded in conspiracy today. But this is what makes these two stories so compelling and riveting.