Right wingers wanted to assassinate South
African president: Report
Wednesday December 19, 2012 07:37:06 PM,
IANS
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Johannesburg: A Right
winger group planned to assassinate South African President Jacob Zuma at the recent party meeting of the ruling African National
Congress, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
"The assassination plan by the Right wingers was supposed to be
two-staged," reported the Star newspaper, citing the document and
the confession statement from the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court.
On Sunday evening, the Free State police announced that four
suspects had been arrested in connection with a plot to attack the
ANC's 53rd National Congress. They were brought to the
Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court in the Free State province Monday
and charged with one count of high treason and one count of
conspiracy to engage in a terrorist activity.
"At the first stage, the right wingers intended to attack Zuma,
who is also the state president, and then-deputy-president
Motlanthe, who is still the state deputy president, with mortar
bombs as they were dinning at the 53rd ANC National Conference on
Sunday," said the Free State prosecutor Shaun Abrahams at the
court.
The prosecutor said that if the first stage plan failed the
plotters would launch the second-phase plan by invading the dining
hall and killing Zuma with assault rifles, such as AK-47s.
"These right wingers were in possession of a sketch plan to
execute the plan, including photographs of the conference venue,
dining hall and entrance and exit points," the prosecutor added.
The electoral commission at the 53rd ANC National Conference
Tuesday announced that President Zuma won an overwhelming majority
of votes to retain his position as the ANC president.
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