The mastermind behind a white supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of South Africa has been jailed for 35 years after a decade-long trial. Mike du Toit, a former lecturer at a segregated apartheid-era university, was convicted of high treason in July last year.
He recruited supporters from among hardline white Afrikaners for his far-right "Boeremag", or Boer Force. It planned to violently overthrow the government and return the country to white-only rule.
The group also claimed responsibility for a series of bombs that killed a woman and caused damage throughout the South African township of Soweto in 2002.
The trial heard du Toit had written a "blueprint" for revolution - known as Document 12 - to evict black people from South Africa. The document was found on his computer after police raided his home in October 2011.
The court also heard du Toit discussed carrying out bomb attacks during meetings with co-plotters at barbecues and fast food outlets.
Plans included destroying a major dam, shooting down an aircraft and assassinating Mr Mandela. Du Toit was one of 20 plotters sentenced at the High Court in Pretoria. State media reported that the jail terms handed out by Judge Eben Jordaan ranged from five to 35 years.
The trial is believed to have been the most expensive in South Africa's legal history, costing the taxpayer 36m rand (£2.2m), according to state broadcaster SABC.
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