LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We want to go now back to Pretoria, South Africa and get on the phone our Charlayne Hunter-Gault, our Johannesburg bureau chief who was talking to us last hour about a story that was developing there -- Charlayne.</s>CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, CNN JOHANNESBURG BUREAU CHIEF: Yes, this is the most amazing thing. A few minutes ago, the national director of police arrived on the scene of this so-called hostage drama and announced that we had been taken for a ride, that this was a police training exercise. Now, he then immediately went back into conference inside the airport building here at this Wunderblum Air Base (ph) and has not said anything further. Nor did he explain when he came out why it was that at least two official police spokesmen came out giving the media details of this so-called hostagetaking, even identifying the hostagetaker as an Afrikaans-speaking man. If this is, in fact, a police training exercise, most of the media who have been here with live trucks broadcasting live -- attempting to broadcast live from the scene, believe that the police spokesmen who came out giving these details themselves were not aware that it was a training exercise. There is an awful lot of confusion here. In fact, there are some people who still believe there is a hostage situation going on and that this is an effort to get rid of all of the people who have come around, because there are many, many journalistic organizations from Johannesburg and Pretoria stationed outside of this air base. But the top policeman in the country, Jackie Selebi, has indeed said that this was a training exercise and that he is not sure how this misinformation got out to the media. But most of the media organizations in this area believed it, especially when it was confirmed by two police spokesmen.</s>HARRIS: Interesting. Thanks so much. Charlayne Hunter-Gault reporting live for us by telephone from Pretoria, South Africa and clearing up that story, what we thought had been a breaking story there in South Africa.
South Africa Hostage Drama Said to Be Police Training Exercise