Private ceremony for missing special forces members

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 A private ceremony will be held for the families of two special forces members missing at sea in Namibia.

The SA National Defence Force says the purpose of the ceremony is for the families to conduct rituals in accordance with their culture.

Twenty-seven-year-old Captain Kgabo Wilson Mabutla from Polokwane, and 27-year-old Corporal Senatla AbelSebooa from Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, have been missing since October 6.

Both are members of the special forces regiment.

They disappeared in a boat accident during a SA Development Community special forces training exercise off Walvis Bay in Namibia.

An extensive search was carried out, but the operation had now been scaled down.