The South African government is deeply concerned about cross border incidents which led to the deaths of three people in the Maluti district of the Eastern Cape Province on 12 December 1998.
In response to these incidents, the South African High Commissioner to Lesotho, Japhet Ndlovu, this morning chaired a meeting in Maseru which was attended by the acting Commissioner of the Royal Lesotho Mounted Police, Brigadier J R Moiloa and the Commander of the National Stock Theft Unit of the South African Police Services, Superintendent Andries Oosthuizen. Both sides expressed their concern at the continuation of cross border incidents and undertook to form a joint operation to investigate these latest killings.
ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
PRETORIA
15 DECEMBER 1998