Engineers Released from Equatorial Guinea Return to South Africa
In an unsettling chapter of international diplomacy, two South African engineers, Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, have finally returned home after enduring over two years of confinement in an Equatorial Guinea prison. Their ordeal stemmed from what the United Nations described as arbitrary and illegal drug charges, raising serious questions about the integrity of the judicial process in that country.
The engineers were apprehended in February 2023 when authorities allegedly discovered illicit substances in their luggage.…