A South African Court has sentenced a man to 35 years in jail for attempting to assassinate Nelson Mandela in his quest to drive blacks out of the country.

CEOAFRICA.com gathered that Mike du Toit, a former University lecturer, was convicted of treason for his leadership role in the plot. His trial lasted for nine years.

It was revealed that Toit attempted to overthrow the government of Nelson Mandela in 2002 when he plotted to kill the Nobel Prize winner as his group planted a landmine on the road which the then president suppose to take to open a school in the northern Limpopo province. Mr. Mandela however travelled by helicopter that fateful day.

Toit was also involved in bombing which occurred in Johannesburg, where one person was killed. He was also found guilty of authoring a blueprint for revolution intended to evict black people from most of South Africa and establish a racially "pure" nation by killing anyone who got in the way.

Twenty other members of his white supremacist militia Boeremag were also jailed for between five and 35 years, although many of the people sentenced will go free because they were in custody throughout the nine year trial.

Ironically the sentencing took place in the same court precinct where Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison in 1964.