{"id":1213795,"date":"2022-09-30T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/pastor-jailed-for-life-after-planning-coup-and-black-genocide\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T08:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:04:57","slug":"pastor-jailed-for-life-after-planning-coup-and-black-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/pastor-jailed-for-life-after-planning-coup-and-black-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor jailed for life after planning coup and black genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"28\">\n<p>A white supremacist who was plotting the genocide of black South Africans and a coup in the country has been jailed for life.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Knoesen, 64, was the leader of a far-right terrorist group and had led plans to overthrow the government on 28 November 2019 using AK-47 rifles, hand grenades and rocket launchers.<\/p>\n<p>Knoesen even wanted to use biological weapons to wipe out black people, the Mpumalanga High Court heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sought to justify his beliefs on religious grounds, claiming that God had ordained that he should reclaim South Africa for white people,\u201d said National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman Monica Nyuswa.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Knoesen has been handed two life sentences plus 21 years behind bars for terrorism-related offences.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-433.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2167347\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"JC5SxhqcbBc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NRSA calls on urban roads to fix potholes on Kaneshie-Odorkor highway - Adom TV News (29-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JC5SxhqcbBc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white supremacist who was plotting the genocide of black South Africans and a coup in the country has been jailed for life. Harry Knoesen, 64, was the leader of a far-right terrorist group and had led plans to overthrow the government on 28 November 2019 using AK-47 rifles, hand grenades and rocket launchers. Knoesen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}