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♦️ BREAKING NEWS ♦️ An intelligence driven operation led by the MMC for Public Safety, Dr. Mgcini Tshwaku, together with theJMPD TRU, JMPD CCTV Units and COJ Councillors has discovered a large illegal load of medicine containing codeine with dagga. The medicine and dagga are worth about more than...

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BREAKING NEWS | Drugs worth millions of rand, including codeine mixed with dagga, have been uncovered in a hijacked building in Houghton, Johannesburg. The discovery follows an intelligence-driven operation led by the City of Johannesburg’s MMC for Public Safety, Mgcini Tshwaku, working with law-enforcement agencies.

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20 million worth of drugs found in a hijacked building November 22, 2025, JMPD raid in Johannesburg's Houghton suburb, seizing over R20 million in illegal codeine-laced medicines mixed with dagga from a hijacked building prepped for smuggling to Zimbabwe.

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