Dar es Salaam, March 5 -- SOUTH AFRICA: South African police have launched an investigation into “high treason” claims against Afrikaner minority lobby groups AfriForum and Solidarity, which are accused of spreading false information to the US government about a recently passed land ownership law.

Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) chief Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya told local media on Tuesday that authorities are examining four separate dockets targeting specific entities but declined to name them.

Earlier, the DPCI chief said in an interview with state broadcaster SABC that the cases “concern individuals that may have crossed the border to go and communicate some of the things that are ...