32-year-old arrested over alleged Pollsmoor prison dagga and bribery plot
A Mitchells Plain police officer refused to accept a cash bribe from an inmate at Pollsmoor Prison after the inmate asked him to collect a parcel from his wife. Police say the 32-year-old woman handed him a parcel containing dagga and two grams of tik in Westridge on 15 July 2026, and was arrested for possession of drugs and bribery. Western Cape SAPS commended the officer for his integrity.
🇿🇦 Otland Street, Westridge, Cape Flats, Cape Town · South Africa
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Police say the wife of an alleged gang leader serving a sentence at Pollsmoor
Prison was arrested on 15 July 2026 for allegedly bribing a Mitchells Plain
police officer to help smuggle drugs and other items into the prison.[1]The
inmate allegedly asked the officer to collect a parcel from his wife and hand it
to another inmate at the Mitchells Plain Regional Court, and offered cash for
the arrangement.[1]
At Otland Street, Westridge, the woman handed the officer a parcel that police
said contained dagga, two grams of tik, two knives, four cigarette lighters, a
pack of cigarettes and a cash bribe.[1]Police say the officer arrested the
32-year-old woman on the spot for possession of drugs and bribery.[1]
Mpumalanga police arrested six people during Safer Festive Season operations in the Gert Sibande District on 10 and 11 November 2026, seizing dagga worth about R50,000. A further suspect fled on foot after abandoning a white sedan carrying five bags of dagga on the N2.
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.
