Record 301 kg dagga stash seized at a Windhoek house
Namibian police seized 301 kilograms of dagga worth N$903,000 at a house in Windhoek's Goreangab area on 27 June 2004, the largest single cannabis stash since independence. A Namibian man and woman and a South African woman were arrested for dealing in cannabis.
Officers from the Drug Law Enforcement Unit and the Serious Crime Unit
discovered 301 kilograms of dagga in twelve hessian bags that nearly filled a
house in Windhoek’s Goreangab residential area on Sunday 27 June 2004,
following ongoing police operations.[1]The unit commander, Detective
Inspector Barry de Klerk, called it the biggest single quantity of dagga
seized by Namibian police since independence, valued at about N$903,000.[1]
A 58-year-old Namibian man and his 43-year-old girlfriend, together with a
36-year-old South African woman, were arrested at the scene and were due in
court that week on a charge of dealing in cannabis.[1]
Case data
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On 4 November 2026 a suspect fled on foot from a random vehicle search at the Bukalo roadblock in Zambezi, abandoning cannabis police valued at N$177,000 with a vehicle and cash. Police are hunting the suspect, wanted on six counts including dealing and possession of cannabis and money laundering.
Namibian police arrested a 38-year-old woman in Windhoek's Goreangab area in September 2026 after recovering about 10.2 kg of suspected cannabis and 17,717 Mandrax tablets worth over N$2.2 million. She faces drug-dealing charges.
Border officials at Noordoewer seized 104 parcels of skunk cannabis valued by police at N$5.45 million from a Windhoek-registered vehicle entering Namibia from South Africa. The Namibian driver fled during the scanner inspection and remained at large, while the traced owner denied owning the impounded vehicle.
Namibian Police said they arrested 196 suspects and seized 391,879.86 kilograms of cannabis between 1 and 28 February 2026. A second outlet reported the same cannabis weight and nationality breakdown but put the arrest count at 200.
