JOHANNESBURG -  Delivering judgment in the North Gauteng High Court in the long running trial, Judge Eben Jordaan said there was no room for any other finding but that André Du Toit had been involved in the organisation of a coup.

The judge said it had been proved beyond reasonable doubt that Du Toit had attended a series of meetings with his older brother Mike at which the coup was planned and discussed.
Mike du Toit was on Thursday the first of the 22 accused to be convicted off high treason.

André du Toit would have been in charge of communication during the coup. He had also obtained military radios and antennas for this purpose. One of the radios was handed to a police agent, who had infiltrated the organisation, following a meeting at a strip club in Pretoria in 2001.

A secret recording of an incriminating conversation between André du Toit and the same agent later became one of the crucial pieces of evidence against him.

Judge Jordaan ruled that Du Toit had been part of an inner circle of trustees who had planned to create chaos, take over the government and chase blacks and Indians out of the country. Du Toit had been present when explosives were tested outside Warmbaths with the view to blow up electricity masts and substations.

He was also present at a meeting late in January 2002 when Tom Vorster took over from his brother Mike as leader of the Boeremag.

At this meeting, André du Toit was one of those who swore allegiance to the Boeremag and its cause and received a bullet, signifying that traitors would be shot.