Captain Wynand du Toit was finally to be released on 7 September 1987 after some 837 days of solitary confinement in an Angolan prison in a complicated prisoner exchange arrangement brokered by Jean-Yves Ollivier.
After 837 days of imprisonment in an Angolan jail, Captain Wynand du Toit was released on September 7, 1987, through a complicated prisoner swap orchestrated by Jean-Yves Ollivier.