The Western Cape Community Safety Department has praised Villiersdorp police officers involved in making a multi-million rand cocaine bust.
Officers also arrested three men earlier this week and seized 253 boxes packed with the narcotic valued at around R400 million.
Community Safety MEC Dan Plato says he's been informed that the truck the used to transport the drugs hailed from a farm in the Boland.
It's understood that the stash was destined for the Netherlands.
Plato has written to provincial Police Commissioner Khombinkosi Jula, requesting a thorough investigation.
“Fact of the matter is we do not know if it was drugs coming from outside into the province, or whether these drugs were manufactured in the province at a farm.”
Plato says the full investigation needs to include:
- Where the drugs were manufactured, by whom and working under instruction of which financier;
- Where the drugs were intended to be delivered, through which transportation systems, on whose authorisation and with whose involvement;
- Who would have taken delivery of the drugs, who would have paid for it, by which method of payment and who would have received the payment; and
- Details for every component involved into this operation – suspects’ phones and who they have been communicating with; owners, lessors or companies involved in the farm, transportation, boxing, branded items or paperwork.
"The biggest and furthest reaching investigation possible is required to uncover the scourge of drugs in communities in the Western Cape, the gangs which peddle them, the gun-wielding gangsters running around with total disregard for the life of others, as well as the kingpins orchestrating these criminal acts, murders as well as manufacturing, selling and seemingly exportation of drugs."
The MEC has called on residents to take action.
"Anyone who has any information on to report this information to their closest police station or to call the SAPS Crime Stop number 08600 10111."
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