{"id":46140,"date":"2026-04-28T02:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/police-intercepted-a-netherlands-national-with-60kg-of-khat-concealed-in-his-luggage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:38:24","slug":"police-intercepted-a-netherlands-national-with-60kg-of-khat-concealed-in-his-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/police-intercepted-a-netherlands-national-with-60kg-of-khat-concealed-in-his-luggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Police intercepted a Netherlands national with 60kg of KHAT concealed in his luggage."},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a busy long weekend for Police at OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA), with significant breakthroughs in the fight against drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

In the latest drug bust, police intercepted a Netherlands national with 60kg of KHAT concealed in his luggage.<\/p>\n

The drug trafficker was set to take-off to London on Sunday morning when he was intercepted at the Airport.<\/p>\n

His luggage was inspected and 60kg of khat was found concealed inside.<\/p>\n

This is less than 24 hours after the arrest of a Brazilian national found with cocaine worth an estimated R8.7 million at the same airport.<\/p>\n

The latest arrests demonstrates the vigilance and heightened operations by SAPS working closely with ACSA security, BMA officials, SARS customs at ports of entry.<\/p>\n

The back to back successes in intercepting drug traffickers underscores the country's firm stance against transnational organised crime and law enforcements commitment to safeguarding South Africa’s borders.<\/p>\n

SAPS will continue…<\/p>\n

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It has been a busy long weekend for Police at OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA), with significant breakthroughs in the fight against drug trafficking. In the latest drug bust, police intercepted a Netherlands national with 60kg of KHAT concealed in his luggage. The drug trafficker was set to take-off to London on Sunday morning when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/681913342_1393571772794459_1160957717442923021_n%20(1).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/681913342_1393571772794459_1160957717442923021_n%20(1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}