The families of Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, the two South African engineers who have been illegally imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea since February 9, 2023, say they are "deeply grateful" to the South African Parliament, which on October 22 adopted a unanimous motion calling for the engineers’ immediate release. The two South Africans were arrested in what the families say is in retaliation for the seizure by South African courts of superyachts and properties belonging to Equatorial Guinea VP Teodore Nguema Obiang Mangue, who is also the President’s son.