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Kathy McConnachie, long-time partner of Huxham, has also shared her hope that his release may be imminent.
“Langebaan is waiting for you to return. You are loved,” she wrote to Huxham on Facebook. She also remembered Potgieter, telling him George on the Garden Route was awaiting his return.
Head of public diplomacy Clayson Monyela confirmed Pandor's trip.
“The minister will be in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday, with the purpose of the visit to negotiate the release of the two South African engineers,” he told TimesLIVE.
A team working to secure their release has been pleading since their arrest for the government and the UN to intervene, saying the two men are hostages because they were caught up in a geopolitical tangle between Equatorial Guinea and South Africa.
Their arrests coincided with the attachment of a superyacht linked to Equatorial Guinea’s vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang, who has been fighting for the return of two upmarket Cape Town properties attached by the Western Cape High Court several years ago. The attachments are linked to a legal skirmish with South African businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg, who won a civil claim for damages against Obiang after being wrongfully imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea.
