There was no word on Friday on the return to South Africa of four mercenaries pardoned this week by the government of Equitorial Guinea.
"We have not been advised of anything," said Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Nomfanelo Kota.
An embassy official in Malabo did not want to be quoted and referred further queries to Kota.
Briton Simon Mann, South Africans Nick du Toit, George Alerson, Sergio Cardoso and Jose Sundays were convicted in a trial which implicated Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, as the financier of a 2004 plot to overthrow the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea and oust long-serving President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
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Their pardons coincided with a visit by President Jacob Zuma.
South Africa's Justice Department said they would not be prosecuted on their return.
Mann has already returned to the United Kingdom. - Sapa
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