The Citizen reports that the defence force chief General Solly Shoke has begun legal steps to have a soldier who presumably drowned while swimming in the sea at Port Shepstone three years ago declared dead.  

Private Junior Ngwane of Soweto disappeared without a trace while he and fellow soldiers were swimming at Banana Beach on 6 August 2013 following a day of training.  A board of inquiry in August 2013 found Ngwane had drowned.  The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria last week granted an order giving interested parties until 12 May to supply reasons why an order should not be granted that Ngwane’s death was presumed to have occurred on the date of his disappearance.

• Read this report by Ilse de Lange in full at The Citizen

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