Two years on: SA families plead for the release of two engineers jailed in Equatorial Guinea

Two employees of a Dutch company have been in Equatorial Guinea for two years. The engineers of SBM Offshore are said to be behind African bars on unproven suspicion of drug trafficking. They seem to be pawns in a much larger chess game.

Two years on: SA families plead for the release of two engineers jailed in Equatorial Guinea

Two years after the allegedly unlawful imprisonment of South African residents Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham in Equatorial Guinea, their families are pleading with the South African government to intensify its efforts to help bring their loved ones back home.