Testing the boundaries, ‘Teflon Tina Joemat-Petterssen’s follies, and testy fishermen turn up the heat on the authorities.
It was not long before another transgression made the headlines. This time SARS investigators discovered and confiscated 1.6 tons (28 764 individual animals) of abalone valued at R4 million in the process of being smuggled out of Cape Town on a commercial container vessel destined for Hong Kong.
A Detention Order was served on the shipping agents, legally compelling them to ensure the container’s return to South Africa.
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