{{South Africa’s police have launched a new investigation into the 1986 plane crash that killed Mozambican leader Samora Machel, a spokesman has said.}}<\/p>\n
It comes after a tip-off that South Africa’s apartheid-era officials engineered the crash, reports say.<\/p>\n
Mr Machel’s death plunged the region into crisis, as African governments accused South Africa’s then-white rulers of assassinating him.<\/p>\n
But South Africa insisted that it had not killed Mr Machel.<\/p>\n
South Africa’s privately owned Times newspaper reports that President Jacob Zuma has sanctioned the inquiry launched by the elite police unit, the Hawks, following a tip-off in January.<\/p>\n
His approval came on the strength of evidence obtained by investigators, including documents, photographs and voice recordings, it reports.<\/p>\n
Capt Paul Ramaloko of the South African Police Service confirmed to the Associated Press news agency that an investigation had been launched, but gave no further details.<\/p>\n
In 1987, South Africa’s Judge Cecil Margo – assisted by US and UK experts – blamed negligence on the part of the plane’s crew for the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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