64 bags of dagga worth R5m seized from a truck at Bapong weighbridge
Rustenburg Flying Squad officers followed a white truck from the Brits Toll Plaza on 17 August 2023 and stopped it at the Bapong Weighbridge near Mooinooi, finding 64 bags of dagga valued at R5 million. The driver and passenger, aged 37 and 41, were arrested on charges of dealing in drugs.
🇿🇦 Bapong Weighbridge near Mooinooi, North West · South Africa
Members of the Rustenburg Flying Squad arrested two suspects aged 37 and 41 near Mooinooi
on Thursday 17 August 2023 for dealing in drugs.[1][2]Acting on a tip-off about a
vehicle carrying drugs, the officers followed a white truck from the Brits Toll Plaza and
stopped and searched it at the Bapong Weighbridge close to Mooinooi.[1][2]
Upon the discovery of 64 bags of dagga in the truck, the driver and passenger were
arrested immediately.[1][2]North West police spokesperson Colonel Adele Myburgh put the
street value of the dagga at R5 million.[1][2]
The men were expected to appear in the Brits Magistrate’s Court on charges of dealing in
drugs, and one of them faced an additional charge of being in South Africa illegally.[1][2]Provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Sello Kwena applauded the officers’
swift response.[1]
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Free State police stopped a truck on the N1 south on 7 November 2026 and found 452 one-kilogram bales of dagga, but the driver jumped out of the moving vehicle about 100 metres from Parys police station and escaped on foot. The truck was impounded and its owner questioned; no arrest for the load had been reported.
Soldiers of 10 South African Infantry Battalion seized 78 kg of dagga valued at R473,000 during Operation CORONA patrols in the Musina area along the Limpopo River. The SANDF said the cannabis was allegedly intended to be smuggled into South Africa.
Police stopped a white Isuzu truck on the N4 near Vandyksdrift on 19 October and found 55 bags of compressed dagga weighing 1,680 kg, which they valued at R12 million. Two men who arrived in a Polo and allegedly offered the officers money were arrested with the driver.
Secunda Flying Squad officers found 103 kg of dagga worth about R800,000 in a Gauteng-registered Honda Civic stopped on the N17 near Leandra on 19 October 2026. The driver abandoned the car and fled on foot; the vehicle and the dagga were seized.
