South Africa to sentence 20 extremists for Mandela death plot

A South African court began yesterday
sentencing 20 right-wing extremists
convicted of high treason for a plot to kill
Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of
the country. The “Boeremag” organisation
had planned a right-wing coup in 2002 to
overthrow the postapartheid government.
The trial lasted almost a decade until the
organisation’s members were convicted in
August last year — the first guilty verdicts
for treason since the end of apartheid in
1994.
“The accused had aimed to overthrow the
government through