South African court begins sentencing 20 white extremists

A South African court began sentencing 20 right-wing extremists convicted of high treason for a plot to kill Nelson Mandela and drive black people out of the country.

The Boeremag organisation planned a right-wing coup in 2002 to overthrow the post-apartheid 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.