THE trial of four men, accused of murder and the theft of arms for an extremist Afrikaner movement, has been postponed until October 9 so that one of the accused can obtain legal representation. The four are accused of stealing arms worth R800000 from the Tempe military base in Bloemfontein in May-June 1998. Three of the men are further accused of hijacking an army munitions truck and murdering two soldiers driving it. The trial is expected to shed light on the tensions and forces of destablisation that exist in the post-apartheid army. According to court papers, the four men, one of whom was based at Tempe, are allegedly members of an Afrikaner organisation called “Die Volk” (the people). The documents state that the group’s main objective was to arm whites to take over the country “once blacks enter into an armed struggle with one another.” The trial is expected to expose some of the tensions underlying the Tempe military base, which finally exploded in September 1999, when a black soldier gunned down seven colleagues, before he was shot dead.