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JC Smit: meineedige getuie teen die 'Boeremag' [boodskap #90071]

Vr, 06 Februarie 2004 16:06

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Is dit al wat hulle teen die beskuldigdes het? Of het hulle nog ander
getuienis gefabriseer. Blykbaar kan JC Smit met moord weg kom, as hy
maar net 'getuig' soos die veiligheidspolisie dit wil he.

From SCA-News

B. BOER RENAISSANCE

[...]

In the so-called Boeremag trial, cross-examination of the main
witness, police spy CJ Smit, has turned the court room into a
story-teller competition, as Smit's testimony about a plan to
'overthrow the (Azanian) state' was challenged by Advocate Harry
Prinsloo, counsel for for the accused Mike Du Toit. Asked how he
thought one could carry out a wide-ranging plan to take over the
country with so little money, Smit told the court about 'a certain
Oom Jan from Bethlehem', who allegedly told someone else that he
would give a field of sunflowers, - but the accused would have to
harvest it themselves. Another person in the Free State had offered to
donate 200 sheep, he said. Smit also mentioned Mike du Toit's
retirement package, and the sale of bullets....

Counsel for the defence put it to Smit that the accused would deny
that a so-called coup plot had ever been discussed at any of the
meetings testified about by Smit. Smit was forced to concede that the
"meetings" - many of them around "braaivleis" fires - were never
formal and usually took the form of open discussions. He also conceded
that nothing concrete had ever been done and no absolute final acts of
terror had been described in his presence. He admitted that the
meetings had just been "a lot of talking". But he remained adamant
that a document setting out a detailed coup plan had been discussed at
just about every one of those occasions, including an alleged meeting
at a striptease club in Pretoria....

Meanwhile, police spy Johan Smit's cross-examination has led to other
interesting developments. Smit, who claims he infiltrated the inner
circle of the nationalist Boer organisation, is still being
cross-examined by the different advocates representing the more than
20 Boers accused of planning to set up a Boer Republic. In a revealing
turn of events last week, Smit admitted that previous written evidence
he had signed was in fact false, and that he 'only scanned' what a
security policeman had actually written down, before signing it. He
conceded that he had never read through the statement word by word
before testifying, although he signed it as correct. "That was my
memory then, but I've noticed last night on reading my statement that
there were a few mistakes...," he said.

Smit also changed tack on what he had earlier alleged were plans
to take over the country's radio stations. While expanding on his
earlier evidence that targets identified as part of an alleged coup
plan included the SABC, Radio Jakaranda and Radio Pretoria, Smit said
that 'later' it was decided to retain Radio Pretoria for propaganda
purposes... To a question by Judge Eben Jordaan on how the SABC
would have been destroyed, Smit said: "Well, the place had to be blown
up... It would definitely not have been a job for one or two guys. It
would not have been humanly possible. I don't know how they would have
done it."

Smit's testimomony on what the Boeremag was planning to blow up
or take over includes, so far, the SABC, the SA National Defence
Force's operational headquarters in Pretoria, the fuel depot at
Watloo, 4 Reconnaissance Unit headquarters at Swartkops, military
aircraft like the Rooivalk helicopters, and many other 'targets'.
Smit also once again touched on an alleged plan to chase all black
people out of the cities along the N1 highway to Zimbabwe.....

http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,73 484,00.html