Kaya 959 Reporter
A South African court has found a pastor guilty of planning to topple the government and murder thousands of black people.
On Monday, 61-year-old Harry Johannes Knoesen, a leader of the National Christian Resistance Movement, was convicted guilty of high treason, incitement to carry out violent actions, and recruiting people to carry out assaults.
Harry Knoesen, a leader of the National Christian Resistance Movement, was found guilty of treason, incitement to violent attacks, and recruiting people to commit attacks YESTERDAY. He explored the option of using a biological weapon to infect and kill Black people.
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According to the prosecution, Knoesen’s organization looked into the idea of employing a biological weapon to infect and kill Black people, including poisoning water reservoirs that supply Black areas.
The Middelburg High Court also found Knoesen guilty of illegally possessing guns.
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According to the Huffington Post, when he was apprehended in Middelburg, a tiny town in the eastern Mpumalanga province, weapons and ammunition were discovered.
Knoesen is scheduled to return to court on June 10 to begin sentencing proceedings.
South African police and intelligence agencies disrupted the pastor’s group’s plot in 2019, and have since disbanded the organization’s cells around the country and detained several of its leaders.
Knoesen is accused of inciting violence against Black people on Facebook and recruiting former members of the South African military to join his movement and carry out the planned attacks.
He also selected Black South African townships and informal settlements as potential targets for attack.
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