Results

What cooperation looks like, weighed and counted.

Every figure on this page comes from the TPC’s public conference record. Where the record is not yet settled, the figure is withheld — never estimated.

R1.3 billion

of drugs seized

July 2023 – July 2025, under SAPS directorship

Map of the Southern Route: from the Makran coast across the Indian Ocean to Tanzania and Mozambique, then by road and air into South Africa; the Atlantic cocaine vector; the outbound air vector to West Africa.The Lebombo corridor file — Badplaas, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 16 July 2023The region’s largest recorded seizure — Tanzania, 12–22 December 2023The Limpopo intercept — Limpopo, South Africa, 1 January 2024The Vilankulo seizure — Vilankulo, Mozambique, 5 March 2024The Delmas load — Delmas, South Africa, 10 October 2024The Beira landfall — Beira, Mozambique, 21 February 2025The false compartment — Lomahasha Border Post, Eswatini, 17–18 July 2025The outbound vector — Lagos, Nigeria — shipped from OR Tambo International Airport, South Africa, February 2024TPC headquarters — MaputoTANZANIAMOZAMBIQUESOUTH AFRICAMAKRAN COASTATLANTIC VECTOROUTBOUND AIR

The results wall

Seven interdictions, one record

July 2023 – July 2025, under SAPS directorship

R1.3 billion

Value of drugs seized

≈ USD 72.65 million

3 826 kg

Total quantity

heroin, methamphetamine, crack cocaine, cannabis

7

Major interdictions

3

Member states, one cell

Case files

The governed case files

Seven seizures in date order, and the outbound vector that confirmed South Africa as a departure platform. Open a file for its beats, its map and its evidence.

Associated organised crime

Vehicles are the syndicates’ currency

Vehicle theft is not a side-line: it is the syndicates’ logistics and currency. The same networks that move drugs north move vehicles across the same border posts.

The networks overlap with

  • Kidnapping for ransom
  • Theft of motor vehicles
  • Terrorism
  • Money laundering

Details pending confirmationKidnapping and vehicle-crime figures are published once confirmed by Crime Detection.

Next step

No single service can watch an ocean

The network behind the record — and the centre it is building toward.