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LOOT: Crime intelligence members confiscated chemicals used to make mandrax in Bryanston yesterday. The drugs' value was put at R100m PHOTOS: BAFANA MAHLANGU

EXHIBIT: A member of crime intelligence with evidence collected from the raided house

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The trio - a husband, his wife and his brother - were arrested yesterday after a "drug lab" and chemicals used to manufacture mandrax with a street value of R100-million were found in two houses - one in Bryanston and the other in Douglasdale.

In Douglasdale, mandrax tablets as well as the chemicals used to manufacture them, hydrochloric acid and methaqualone, were found while police discovered chemicals only at the property in Bryanston.

Acting crime intelligence and security services boss Major-General Chris Ngcobo said more people could soon be nabbed following yesterday's arrests.

"This type of operation is usually done by syndicates and there could be more people involved," Ngcobo said.

Without going into details, Ngcobo said it took days of hard work before they pounced on the three, who all hail from Soweto.

"This is not the first operation we have conducted as we recently conducted another one in Randburg [where drugs worth R2-million were seized]. Intelligence has been working hard on this case," he said.

He said the drugs could have been headed to other countries. He added that police would not allow drug traffickers to flood the streets with their wares.

"We are not going to take any chances when it comes to drugs. As you know, drugs are a problem and one of the government's priorities. We are trying hard to take drugs out of our communities," he said. - selebim@sowetan.co.za

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Jul 26, 2012

KarlMarx1

is this Phiyega's first success? Watch out for the 'Landlord' Agglioti, he makes offers one cant refuse. Ask Bra Jacks, mama!
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Jul 26, 2012

2meZa07

Its about time we bust this drug dealers. If they are forainers they should be taken out of the country to their born land. I hate them they took my freinds life.
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Jul 26, 2012

DIENGDIENG

most of these drugdealers is our own brothers from S.A . They dont want to work they like easy money they allow the foreigners to come and sell drugs in our country.
in Nigeria and all this other countries they are not doing all the nonsense
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Jul 27, 2012

knobkirrie

Yes, some of our people are aiding foreigners to peddle in our country. The solution is to give them each 100 years hard labour, when their carcasses qualify for parole, their corpses should then be deported. If they are SA citizens, citizenship should be revoked, and thrown in the sea
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