The SA National Defence Force has rejected reports that Sudan held South Africa to ransom to prevent the arrest of President Omar al-Bashir.
This, by allegedly threatening South Africans troops in Darfur in South Sudan.
However, SANDF spokesperson, Siphiwe Dlamini, said there is no ounce of truth in the allegations.
Dlamini was responding to an online media report that Sudanese troops had held 1-thousand-400 South African soldiers serving in the UN Mission in Darfur hostage as a diplomatic crisis around the potential arrest of Bashir in South Africa escalated.
The report said that Sudanese troops had surrounded their South African counterparts in the western Sudanese region and only withdrew once Bashir had landed in Khartoum on Monday.
But according to Dlamini the situation in the area of North Darfur where the South African troops are stationed was calm on Monday.
"I'm aware that there's speculation that some members of the Defence Force have called their families. But, I want to indicate that we have been in director contact with the commander of the troops and nothing of that nature happened."
However, Dlamini did confirm that there was "movement of Sudanese" troops but he said that "had nothing to do with our base."
