Advocate Harry Prinsloo, acting for alleged Boeremag leader Mike du Toit, put his client's version to police spy Johan Smit who claimed to have infiltrated the Boeremag's inner circle while secretly reporting to the police.
Smit testified that a document, setting out a violent coup plan to take over the country had been discussed at almost every Boeremag meeting he had attended between 2001 and 2002.
Prinsloo however said his client would deny that a coup plan had ever been discussed.
Referring to various documents and prophesies, Prinsloo told Smit his client would testify that the purpose of the meetings was to discuss things like farm murders, ongoing black-on-white violence, corruption, crime in the country, predictions that whites would be massacred by blacks after Nelson Mandela's death and pronunciations by Peter Mokaba such as "kill the boer, kill the farmer" and "one settler, one bullet".
Prinsloo put it to Smit that operations such as Operation White Clean-up, Operation Vula, Night of the Long Knives, Operation Iron Eagle and the Red October campaign had formed the subject of discussions at some of the meetings.
Operation Eagle, he said, would have been carried out by the Defence Force and entailed 70 000 armed black men being transported in taxis to the Johannesburg city centre to kill whites.
Our Rainy Day would have been carried out after Mandela's death and entailed armed blacks being transported to the big cities, taking over fuel points and killing whites.
The Red October campaign was allegedly a communist plot to oust president Thabo Mbeki and to massacre whites and Vula was aimed at ousting Mbeki and replacing him with Cyril Ramaphosa.
Smit denied Du Toit's claims, although he admitted that black-on-white attacks had often been discussed at meetings.
He sarcastically suggested that the Boeremag members should join the National Intelligence Agency as they seemed to have so much information.
The trial continues today. – Sapa.
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