BOXER REPRIEVED
Found Guilty Of High Treason In South Africa ALLEGED AGENT OF GERMANY British Official Wireless Rec. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 22. The Executive Council in Pretoria has decided to reprieve Sydney Leibrandt, former boxer and proNazi, who was sentenced to death in South Africa for high treason. The Court substituted life imprisonment for the death sentence. The factors contributing to the reprieve were that Leibrandt was not found guilty of sabotage or causing the death of anyone, and his mission was a complete failure. The question of his normality was given careful consideration, also the fact that he had spent nine months and a half in a condemned cell. Leibrandt, former heavy-weight boxer, who represented South Africa at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 10£G, was found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death in March last. The Crown alleged that he was sent from Germany to South Africa in a U-boat with a large sum of money and radio equipment for organising a rebellion against the faoutn African Government.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 304, 23 December 1943, Page 5
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