{"id":12803,"date":"2012-07-27T01:33:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-1-s-african-boeremag-mastermind-guilty-of-high-treason\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T01:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:33:53","slug":"update-1-s-african-boeremag-mastermind-guilty-of-high-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-african-boeremag-mastermind-guilty-of-high-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.African "Boeremag" mastermind guilty of high treason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Plots hatched around barbecues and fast-food outlets<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Fringe group wanted to kill Mandela and drive out blacks<\/p>\n

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* Verdicts awaited on 21 other Boeremag members<\/p>\n

(Adds analyst reaction)<\/p>\n

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By Peroshni Govender<\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG, July 26 (Reuters) – The mastermind of a “Boer
\nArmy” white supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and
\ndrive blacks out of South Africa was found guilty of high
\ntreason on Thursday after a trial that lasted almost ten years.<\/p>\n

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Former university lecturer Mike du Toit was the first member
\nof the “Boeremag”, a rag-tag militia of apartheid loyalists, to
\nbe found guilty in connection with a botched 2002 coup attempt
\nin Africa’s biggest economy which aimed to overthrow the ruling
\nAfrican National Congress.<\/p>\n

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He will be sentenced at a later date, and may face life in
\njail. Verdicts on 21 other Boeremag members are expected over
\nthe next few weeks.<\/p>\n

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Under du Toit’s plan, concocted around barbecues and in
\nfast-food outlets, the Boeremag would force South Africa’s black
\nmajority – roughly 40 million people – over the border into
\nZimbabwe with food parcels, while its 1.2 million Indians would
\nbe put on boats back to the subcontinent.<\/p>\n

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Witnesses testified that the group also planned to
\nassassinate Mandela, who became South Africa’s first black
\npresident in 1994 and acted as a unifying force after decades of
\nwhite-minority rule.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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* Plots hatched around barbecues and fast-food outlets * Fringe group wanted to kill Mandela and drive out blacks * Verdicts awaited on 21 other Boeremag members (Adds analyst reaction) By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG, July 26 (Reuters) – The mastermind of a “Boer Army” white supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}