Police are investigating possible links between the Boeremag, 23 of whose members are standing trial in Pretoria, and a far right-wing group called the ”Suidlanders” (South landers).
The Suidlanders shot to public notice last week as the organisation behind the Nelson Mandela ”hoax emails” feverishly circulated on the internet.
Claiming the authorities had covered up Mandela’s death to avoid ”mass hysteria”, it called on Afrikaners to stockpile fuel and food and to assemble at certain points for their safety.
Police investigators working on the Boeremag treason trial said this week that the Soweto bombers currently on trial in Pretoria — Herman van Rooyen, the three Pretorius brothers and Rudi Gouws — referred to themselves as ”Suidlanders”.
Documents found on Boeremag murder and treason accused Wilhelm Pretorius’s computer link the name ”Suidlanders” with the Boeremag. Among them was a Suidlander oath. And Mandela’s death was central to the Boeremag apocalypse, which predicted a massacre of whites after his funeral and a right-wing coup d’Ã