Mangaung plotters wanted KKK funding

[OrbitalDawn]

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The alleged rightwing Mangaung plotters were hoping to bankroll their activities with funds from the US extremist group, the Ku Klux Klan, a Free State court heard on Monday.

State witness Jaco Scherman told the Free State High Court that accused Johan Prinsloo paid R40 000 for an overseas trip for Hein Boonzaaier. His brief was to have discussions with potential funders such as the KKK.

The KKK is a far-right organisation in the United States which advocates extremist reactionary views such as white supremacy, white nationalism and anti-immigration.

Prinsloo faces charges of treason, conspiracy to take part in terrorist acts, and possession of illegal ammunition. He was arrested in December 2012 with Martin Keevy, Mark Trollip, and Boonzaaier.

Charges against Boonzaaier were dropped. Trollip pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy and was sentenced to eight years in prison last year. Keevy was declared unfit to stand trial.

Scherman testified that the group planned to acquire diamonds from Zimbabwe and sell them to fund their planned terrorist activities.

The state alleges that Keevy, Trollip, Prinsloo, and Boonzaaier were part of a group that plotted to kill African National Congress leaders at the party's national elective conference in Mangaung in December 2012.

 

[Polish]

I though the KKK was an extinct '70s type racist movement, long gone.

:wtf:

 

[Fudzy]

I though the KKK was an extinct '70s type racist movement, long gone.

:wtf:

Nope, still around.

 

[LazyLion]

I though the KKK was an extinct '70s type racist movement, long gone.

:wtf:

When I went to university in South Carolina in 1992 I was introduced to one of the workers at the University.
When he heard I was from South Africa, he insisted I should come and speak at his "club" ... it was called "The Sons of the Confederate Veterans".
When I politely declined he tried to engage me in conversation by asking "so what do you think of slavery?" :wtf:

 

[Rocket-Boy]

When I went to university in South Carolina in 1992 I was introduced to one of the workers at the University.
When he heard I was from South Africa, he insisted I should come and speak at his "club" ... it was called "The Sons of the Confederate Veterans".
When I politely declined he tried to engage me in conversation by asking "so what do you think of slavery?" :wtf:

Completely off topic but what was South Carolina like?
Im reading some Pat Conroy books at the moment and most of them are set in that area.

 

[LazyLion]

Completely off topic but what was South Carolina like?
Im reading some Pat Conroy books at the moment and most of them are set in that area.

I love South Carolina! Would very easily live there!
The only thing was the pollen season in the Spring.... I spent most of that in an isolation room in the hospital.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

I hear it gets quite warm in the summer, with warm being an understatement!
very interesting sounding place though. Would like to go check it out sometime.

 

[LazyLion]

I hear it gets quite warm in the summer, with warm being an understatement!
very interesting sounding place though. Would like to go check it out sometime.

Not any more warm than South Africa... I spent four years there. It was very pleasant.
I didn't find it overly humid or unpleasant.

 

[Polish]

When I went to university in South Carolina in 1992 I was introduced to one of the workers at the University.
When he heard I was from South Africa, he insisted I should come and speak at his "club" ... it was called "The Sons of the Confederate Veterans".
When I politely declined he tried to engage me in conversation by asking "so what do you think of slavery?" :wtf:

Only in America

That schit went down like 150 years ago and they still keeping it alive ?

 

[LazyLion]

Only in America

That schit went down like 150 years ago and they still keeping it alive ?

There is a cannonball still stuck in the wall of the State Capitol Building in Columbia, South Carolina.... it reminds them every day of the "War of Northern Aggression"!