Anonymous
04-15-2002, 04:34 AM
White supremacists in SA court
Monday, 8 April, 2002, 12:04 GMT 13:04 UK
Three men accused of belonging to a white supremacist group and plotting to overthrow President Thabo Mbeki have been taken to court in Pretoria.
They will remain in police custody until Friday, when they are due to be formally charged with terrorist offences.
Police said four men from another but unrelated right-wing group face similar charges for plotting to blow up a major dam.
Police spokesman Captain Ronnie Naidoo said: "They were planning to overthrow the government and cause havoc by blowing up prominent targets and people.----
It said four men, members of a sect of the ultra-right Afrikaner church "Israel Vision", appeared in court on Tuesday last week for allegedly conspiring to blow up the Vaal Dam wall. -----
The paper said right-wing groups have been using fundamentalist Christian doctrine and concerns about Zimbabwe's seizure of white-owned farms to recruit angry whites in rural areas.
It said it had a document from one group marked "top secret" containing plans to reclaim "lost territorial self-determination".
It speaks of plans to spring prisoners from jail, including the apartheid-era policeman Eugene de Kock and the assassins of former South African Communist Party secretary-general Chris Hani, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus.
Extracted - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1916000/1916582.stm
Monday, 8 April, 2002, 12:04 GMT 13:04 UK
Three men accused of belonging to a white supremacist group and plotting to overthrow President Thabo Mbeki have been taken to court in Pretoria.
They will remain in police custody until Friday, when they are due to be formally charged with terrorist offences.
Police said four men from another but unrelated right-wing group face similar charges for plotting to blow up a major dam.
Police spokesman Captain Ronnie Naidoo said: "They were planning to overthrow the government and cause havoc by blowing up prominent targets and people.----
It said four men, members of a sect of the ultra-right Afrikaner church "Israel Vision", appeared in court on Tuesday last week for allegedly conspiring to blow up the Vaal Dam wall. -----
The paper said right-wing groups have been using fundamentalist Christian doctrine and concerns about Zimbabwe's seizure of white-owned farms to recruit angry whites in rural areas.
It said it had a document from one group marked "top secret" containing plans to reclaim "lost territorial self-determination".
It speaks of plans to spring prisoners from jail, including the apartheid-era policeman Eugene de Kock and the assassins of former South African Communist Party secretary-general Chris Hani, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus.
Extracted - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1916000/1916582.stm