{"id":1849,"date":"2012-07-26T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/south-african-boermag-mastermind-guilty-of-treason-plotting-to-kill-nelson-mandela\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T18:34:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T18:34:43","slug":"south-african-boermag-mastermind-guilty-of-treason-plotting-to-kill-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/26\/south-african-boermag-mastermind-guilty-of-treason-plotting-to-kill-nelson-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH AFRICAN &#039;BOERMAG&#039; MASTERMIND GUILTY OF TREASON, PLOTTING TO KILL NELSON MANDELA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 10px; float: left;\" alt=\"du Toit\" src=\"images\/duToit.jpg\" \/>All that talk from Nazis about genocide in South Africa got us thinking: Lest we forget, the<em> real <\/em>genocidal maniacs were the ones pushing the apartheid system, and now one of those maniacs Mike du Toit who couldn&#8217;t deal with the end of that system is getting his.<\/h3>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h2><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/26\/us-safrica-treason-idUSBRE86P1DV20120726\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The mastermind of a &#8220;Boer Army&#8221; white supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of South Africa was found guilty of high treason on Thursday after a trial that lasted almost ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Former university lecturer Mike du Toit was the first member of the &#8220;Boeremag&#8221;, a rag-tag militia of apartheid loyalists, to be found guilty in connection with a botched 2002 coup attempt in Africa&#8217;s biggest economy which aimed to overthrow the ruling African National Congress.<\/p>\n<p>He will be sentenced at a later date, and may face life in jail. Verdicts on 21 other Boeremag members are expected over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Under du Toit&#8217;s plan, concocted around barbecues and in fast-food outlets, the Boeremag would force South Africa&#8217;s black majority &#8211; roughly 40 million people &#8211; over the border into Zimbabwe with food parcels, while its 1.2 million Indians would be put on boats back to the subcontinent.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses testified that the group also planned to assassinate Mandela, who became South Africa&#8217;s first black president in 1994 and acted as a unifying force after decades of white-minority rule.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeremag also intended to shoot whites who opposed their vision of a racially pure nation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite persistent racial tensions, groups such as the Boeremag and the Afrikaner Resistance Movement of murdered far-right leader Eugene Terre&#8217;blanche have little support among South Africa&#8217;s five million whites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are smaller than even a fringe element,&#8221; said political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi. &#8220;There is no evidence that they had significant support.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All that talk from Nazis about genocide in South Africa got us thinking: Lest we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ye-olde-white-power-chopping-block"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}