Senior SAPS officer set to leave SA to meet French investigators over Mthethwa's death

A senior police official is set to leave the country on Tuesday to meet investigators in France over the death of South Africa's Ambassador, Nathi Mthethwa. 

The 58-year-old died in Paris last week after he allegedly fell from the twenty-second floor of a popular hotel in the French capital. 

On Friday, police reported they would send a team of five senior detectives, but National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola said only one would be heading to France. 

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Addressing the media in Bloemfontein on Tuesday, Masemola said the objective is to receive a report from French authorities regarding Mthethwa's death. 

"We are working on police-to-police cooperation. We do have a senior officer that will be in the country. He will be leaving today and update the nation on his activities and whereabouts once he's there."