Boeremag high treason trial
‘Malema could face same fate as Boeremag treason trialists’
Jackson Mthembu described the EFF as believing itself to be above the law.
Herman van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws, both members of the bomb squad, allegedly hid the cache.
The Boeremag treason trial is believed to have cost taxpayers over R30 million.
Claurina Mokone was killed 11 years ago by a Boeremag bomb in Soweto.
Sentences range from five years to the maximum 35 years.
North Gauteng High Court has handed down sentences ranging from five years to the maximum of 35 years.
Judge Eben Jordaan says the group also planned to chase black citizens out of SA.
The ten-year trial is said to have cost taxpayers more than R30m in legal aid fees.
Judge Jordaan says the Boeremag wanted to change govt through unconstitutional means, including violence.
The judge is expected to deliver judgment over two days to end one of SA’s most expensive trials.
It has emerged in court papers that the Boeremag case might be marred by irregularities.
Convicted Boeremag member Jurie Vermeulen told the court he was sorry for causing harm.
Boeremag member Adriaan van Wyk was granted bail in the North Gauteng High Court.
Five more Boeremag members have been found guilty for planning to murder former president Nelson Mandela.
Dirk Hanekom is the eleventh Boeremag accused to be found guilty of high treason.
22 men faced a range of charges including treason, murder and terrorism.
22 right-wingers were charged with a host of crimes including treason, terrorism and murder.
Judge Eben Jordaan has found accused number four Adriaan van Wyk guilty of treason.
Yet another Boeremag member has been found guilty of high treason by a Pretoria court.