Boeremag
Boeremag ( Afrikaans for "Burenmacht") was a right-wing radical group in South Africa that worked with terrorist means. Its members were drawn from the Boer lower and middle classes; several of them belonged to the army and police during apartheid .
history
Boeremag is credited with a series of bomb attacks that took place in Soweto in October 2002 . There was one fatality and several injured. The targets were bridges, gas stations, railroad tracks and a mosque. Another bomb, which did not explode, was placed in a Buddhist temple in Bronkhorstspruit . In August of the same year, an attack on the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg was prevented. After the series of attacks in Soweto, the group was crushed by the secret service and police. In 2003, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria began a treason trial against 22 Boeremag members who were accused of not only involvement in the bombings but also planning a coup and an assassination attempt on Nelson Mandela . Some of the accused appealed in court to the Boer seer Nicolaas van Rensburg , who had prophesied a civil war around 1900 for the beginning of the third millennium that would lead to the establishment of a Boer people's state .
See also
Web links
- Philipp Merkofer: Afflicted Burenmacht , in: WOZ , October 23, 2003.