Four suspected white terrorists were arrested on Sunday after attempting to bomb the African National Conference political party convention.

Police arrested the four men in separate areas of South Africa and charged them with attempted acts of terrorism and treason. The names of the suspected terrorists were released on Tuesday by South African authorities as Mark Trollip, Johan Prinsloo, Martin Keevy and Hein Boonzaaier, according to The Associated Press.

ANC President Jacob Zuma was said to be the main target of the attack by the right-wing extremists. The 70-year-old president is one of the favored candidates to win the 2014 election.

The prosecutors called the four men's plan "the Slaughter of Mangaung," designed for a full attack at the conference. The extremists planned on disrupting the conference held at the University of the Free State using machine guns and mortars to kill as many people as possible.

The suspected terrorists had previously taken pictures of the dining hall at the university, leading prosecutors to believe that was their first intended target area. The terror plot was also an attempt at furthering the small group's political agenda.

The extremists were planning to create a new political party called the Boere Party. The term Boere refers to farmers in the Afrikaans language but is sometimes used to reference white people living in the area. The terrorists wanted to create a party that would bring back the all-white government that was present before the 1994 democratic election.

Two of the suspected terrorists have ties to the Federal Freedom Party, which shares the beliefs of returning power to the minority of whites in South Africa. However, the group denied they had anything to do with the planned attack.

"We were not involved and do not associate ourselves with their actions," FFP national secretary Francois Cloete said, according to Reuters.

The ANC conference continued with heightened security. President Zuma won an overwhelming vote on Tuesday which keeps him as the head of the party and the likely candidate to have another five-year term in the upcoming 2014 general elections, according to The Huffington Post.