Man held with 90 bags of R4m dagga after Dundee car chase
A 32-year-old man was arrested in Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal, on the night of 5 August 2025 after police chased and stopped his car and found 90 bags of compressed dagga, valued by police at about R4 million. He was charged with dealing in dagga and was due in the Dundee Magistrate's Court on 6 August.
🇿🇦 Dundee, uMzinyathi district, KwaZulu-Natal · South Africa
A 32-year-old man was arrested in Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal, after police found 90
bags of compressed dagga in his car.[1]Police said they had intelligence that
a car was entering the country from Eswatini through Paulpietersburg carrying
dagga.[1]Officers from the Glencoe K9 Unit, the Zululand District Task Team
and Dundee Crime Prevention looked for the car and found it on the R33 road
heading towards Blood River.[1]The driver refused to stop and a chase
followed until police stopped the car in Dundee.[2]
The bags of dagga were on the passenger seat, the back seat and in the boot of
the car.[1]Police put the street value of the 90 bags at an estimated R4
million.[2]The man was charged with dealing in dagga.[1]He was expected to
appear in the Dundee Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, 6 August 2025.[1]
KwaZulu-Natal police arrested the man on Tuesday night, 5 August 2025.[3]
Photos and video
Cannabis bags packed into the car stopped in Dundee after the chase towards Blood River, as released with the police statement. Photo: SAPSPhoto details
No weight in kilograms was published for the 90 bags, so only the number of bags and the police estimate of R4 million could be recorded.
The arrival route inside South Africa is unclear: police said the car entered from Eswatini via Paulpietersburg, while other accounts describe a chase towards Blood River near Dundee.
No outcome of the scheduled Dundee Magistrate's Court appearance on 6 August 2025 was reported.
The suspect's name, home area and nationality were not published; police only described him as a 32-year-old suspect believed to have entered from Eswatini.
The R4 million figure is the police's estimated street value, not a market price.
The IOL photo is a police handout reused by other outlets; its only credit is to SAPS.
Police stopped a red SUV on the R81 road at Ximuwini near Malamulele and found 14 plastic refuse bags of dagga, which Limpopo police valued at an estimated R662,400. The 55-year-old driver was detained at Malamulele Police Station and was due in the Malamulele Magistrate's Court on 9 November on a charge of dealing in dagga.
Police and private security arrested a driver after a high-speed chase from Sinoville to Bon Accord in Pretoria on 7 November 2026. Officers seized 240kg of dagga with an estimated street value of R960,000 from the vehicle and confiscated the vehicle.
Mpumalanga police stopped a 39-year-old man from KwaZulu-Natal in a white Nissan NP200 at Mahamba before dawn on 3 November 2026 and found 30 rolls holding 158.2 kg of compressed dagga, which they valued at R1 million. He was charged with dealing in dagga and was expected in the Mkhondo Magistrate's Court on 5 November.
Acting on a tip-off, North West police stopped 21-year-old Lusanda Nhlangothi on the N12 near Christiana and found 4.654 kg of compressed dagga packed in two 20-litre drums. He was charged, appeared in court on 29 October and was remanded until a 5 November bail hearing.
