A couple of weeks after the dramatic escape of two of the accused, the Boeremag trial today marks its third anniversary.
South Africa's first post-apartheid treason trial started on May 19 2003 amid high security at the Palace of Justice. It has since moved to the Pretoria High Court for logistical reasons.
Some 64 State witnesses have taken the stand so far and the leader of the State's prosecution team, Paul Fick SC said about 80 more witnesses were due to testify.
Fick said the State, however, hoped to close its case by the end of this year.
The court has heard evidence of how a group consisting mainly of white farmers and academics tried to recruit fellow Afrikaners to help them realise their vision of taking over the country.
Months were spent hearing evidence of how meetings were held on various farms and at other locations, mainly in the platteland, in order to set the plan in motion.
The State is at present questioning forensic experts in court on evidence they had gathered at various scenes where bombs were allegedly planted.
In the past three years the court experienced lighter moments, as well as some heartache and pain. On the lighter side an "object" left in the dock while the trial was still in the Palace of Justice was blown up by police experts. This left a huge gap in the newly refurbished wooden floor directly beneath the dock. It later emerged that the feared object was a coffee flask left behind by mistake by one of the accused.
On a more serious note, many of the 14 accused held in custody in C-Max Prison lost their loved ones through divorce. Some of the accused even ended up with nervous breakdowns and had to be hospitalised. Several also lost family members due to death and could not attend their funerals.
Although Herman van Rooyen and his sidekick Rudi Gouws have in the meantime "gone missing", the trial is set to go ahead without them.
Judge Eben Jordaan has his hands full on a daily basis to try to sort out the gripes of the accused behind bars.
This week's complaints mainly related to their privileges, which had been curtailed because of the escape of their two co-accused. Alleged Boeremag leader Tom Vorster said he could not understand why others should be punished for their "alleged escape".
Vorster's own theory, he told the court this week, is that Van Rooyen and Gouws did not escape, but were in fact abducted by the police.
The men in jail have complained that they are now being locked up early in the afternoons, though the court months ago ordered that they be locked up later so that they could prepare for their case.
Jordaan once again played mediator and the accused on Thursday said the lock-up problem had been sorted out.