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South Africa police foil right-wing terror plot
Security has been extremely tight around the conference, with razor wire thrown up around a perimeter guarded by armed police.
Only a few pre-screened vehicles are allowed to enter what is normally the campus of the University of the Free State.
The Free State province is historically a hotbed of white Afrikaner nationalism.
Since the fall of the white-minority apartheid government in 1994 numerous right-wing groups have turned to violence.
In August 20 people were convicted of high treason in connection with a plot to kill Nelson Mandela and drive black South Africans out of the country.
The “Boeremag” organization had planned a right-wing coup in 2002 to overthrow the post-apartheid government.
Dozens of people were injured and one person killed in blasts that shook the Johannesburg township of Soweto in October 2002.
