South African engineers jailed on drug charges in Guinea have been released after diplomatic interventions and presidential clemency.

Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham were jailed for more than two years after Vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue’s assets were seized in Cape Town ...

Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, both in their mid-50s, were arrested in February 2023 after drugs were allegedly found in their luggage. They were sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $5m ...

On Saturday 4 May 2024, Minister Naledi Pandor will be visiting Equatorial Guinea to begin negotiating the release of these ...

Engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham returned home to South Africa on Sunday after serving more than two years in prison in Equatorial Guinea on seemingly arbitrary drug trafficking charges, ...

After two years of wrongful imprisonment in Equatorial Guinea, South African engineers Frederik ‘Frik’ Potgieter and Peter Huxham are finally free, thanks to a presidential pardon. Their ...

Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham were jailed in 2023 on charges that the United Nations described as 'arbitrary and illegal' People. SBM Offshore employees released from Equatorial Guinea prison.

The families of South African engineers Frederik Potgieter, 54, from George, and Peter Huxham, 55, from Langebaan, continued to call for their release from an Equatorial Guinea prison, as Friday ...

Peter Huxham and Frederik Potgieter, both South African nationals, were arrested on drug-trafficking charges in February 2023, days after a South African court ordered the seizure of one of ...

Two South African engineers have returned home after spending more than two years in jail in Equatorial Guinea on what the UN has called "arbitrary and illegal" drugs charges. Frik Potgieter and ...