Boeremag convict Dawid Oosthuizen, who was sentenced in 2003 following a plea bargain agreement with the state, is set to be released from jail this week.
Pretoria High Court Judge Willie Hartzenberg on Monday afternoon ordered in chambers that the remainder of Oosthuizen’s eight year sentence be converted into correctional supervision.
He had served slightly more than two years of his effective eight year sentence.
Oosthuizen received a six-month reduction of his sentence by Parliament last year.
He received a further reduction after he saved a fellow inmate from hanging himself in his cell.
Oosthuizen has been serving his prison term at the Zonderwater Prison in Cullinan after he entered into a plea bargain agreement with the state in May 2003.
This was three days before the beginning of his 22 co-accused’s lengthy treason trial in the Pretoria High Court.
The conditions attached to converting the 30-year-old self-confessed Boeremag member’s sentence include being subjected to house arrest, home visits and monitoring by Correctional Services officials.
Oosthuizen must also do 16 hours of community services but the department is still to determine where this will take place.
Oosthuizen may not leave the magisterial district where he will be living without the permission of the department or even change his address without prior permission.
He will not be allowed to use alcohol or drugs, visit clubs or any place where alcohol is sold.
Oosthuizen may also not contact any of his 22 co-accused in the Boeremag trial.
Earlier this month, Oosthuizen took the stand where he told judge Eben Jansen of Boeremag meetings he attended where plans to build up a defence against ”an attack by blacks on whites” were discussed.
He was a corporal in the Warmbaths commando at the time and farmed on a farm adjacent to that of co-accused Herman van Rooyen.
Oosthuizen said he was drawn into the Boeremag by Van Rooyen.
He admitted that he hired 10 cars from Avis at the Johannesburg International airport, which he stored in Alexandra. He also admitted that he was involved in the reconnaissance and gathering of information for car bomb targets.
The plan at the time, he said, was to park the cars at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, at the Johannesburg train station, at the German Bank in Sandton and at the African National Congress headquarters in Johannesburg.
He, however, returned the cars to Avis after security forces received information about the plan.
Oosthuizen said he was influenced by videos played at a Boeremag meeting of Siener van Rensburg’s predictions of a black on white onslaught.
Meanwhile many of the Boeremag accused who are spending yet another Christmas in jail have either been divorced or are in the process of doing so. – Sapa