13 May 2003
While the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria High Court continues, Tim Singiswa, a vagrant from Johannesburg, protests on his own and draws more interest than the questions of the advocates in the court room. If he was president, he said, he would have stopped the trial of the 22 alleged state plotters and found out whether they really wanted to overthrow the government by force. If that was their intention, he would have asked them for their reasons. Singiswa got permission for his one-man march in order. His posters were made up of large Black letters on pieces of a cardboard box. He had his memorandum for the president ready. He had hoped that the judge-president would come to fetch it, but was nonetheless grateful when Gerrie Prinsloo, registrar of the court, accepted the document. Click here to read more about the Boeremag. For more information on the rise and the security risk posed by the Boeremag as released by the Institute fort Security Studies, Click here. Source: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1526985,00.html