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The High Treason Club - The Boeremag On Trial (Paperback)
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The High Treason Club - The Boeremag On Trial (Paperback)
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On the night of 30 October 2002, eight bomb blasts tore through Soweto,
leaving one woman dead and damaging vital infrastructure. The bombs
were the work of a far-right white Afrikaner separatist group called
the Boeremag, whose stated aim was to overthrow the ruling ANC
government, rid the country of black people and reinstate a new
Boer-administered republic. For months before the bombings, police had
been investigating the terror group and had made several arrests. In
December, after an intense cross-country manhunt, the perpetrators were
finally caught. All in all, 23 men were arrested and charged with high
treason after the police seized explosives, homemade pipe bombs,
weapons and ammunition in arms caches hidden all over the country.
The trial began in May 2003 under tight security at the Palace of
Justice in Pretoria. Over the next decade, in what became the longest
and most expensive trial in the country’s history, details would emerge
of a group driven by nationalism, racism, militancy and fear. The
public would hear how a fanatical belief in the visions of a
19th-century Boer prophet named Siener van Rensburg culminated in an
ultimately unsuccessful attempt to assassinate former president Nelson
Mandela and initiate a coup.
The High Treason Club is the story of the Boeremag, the investigation
that brought them down and the subsequent trial, the first of its kind
in democratic South Africa. Based on exclusive interviews, as well as
thousands of pages of court transcripts and documentary evidence, this
book elegantly unpacks a complex case and gives unprecedented insight
into the various role-players and their motivations.
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