Beit Bridge police arrest ten smugglers

LEONARD NEILL
ANTI-SMUGGLING efforts at Beit Bridge are continuing to pay dividends. Ten foreign nationals in two separate incidents were arrested on the same day last week (October 12). A student constable took the honours in the first case. Approached by a group of six Congolese, he was offered a bribe to have their false papers stamped and allow them to enter South Africa. Instead he handed the documents to his commander, and the pair of them, together with two other assistants, arrested the group. They were endeavouring to smuggle ivory jewellery and elephant tails into this country. Later the same day four Zambians were arrested and found to be in possession of drug bullets containing heroin valued at R1.14 million.