Madlanga Commission continues to hear testimony on drug theft
The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener · 3 June 2026 · 7m
Speaker 1: The MIDLANDA Commissions. Let's start today to be so go by E W and reporters Speaker 1: in court for us listening to the evidence not in courties at the Commission, listening Speaker 1: to the evidence of Colonel Gavin Jacob, to be so good afternoon to you. Thanks Speaker 1: very much for your time, take us through this evidence and what Jacob has had Speaker 1: to say. Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Mandy, Well we have to start with mister Gavin Jacob. So, mister Gavin Speaker 2: Jacob is the unit's command of the Serious Investigations Units. That it's a departner department Speaker 2: within the Hooks that's obviously responsible for a number of serious crimes and investigating those Speaker 2: crimes, which also includes drug trafficking. Now, it was one of the first people to Speaker 2: arrive to the scene, but it was also the senior, the most senior person on Speaker 2: the scene. This is in June twenty twenty one when you got information that there Speaker 2: was a shipping container at the sitting or deepoint in Durbin which was carrying a Speaker 2: large consignment of drugs. Now, mister Jacob has been testifying around how he handled that Speaker 2: scene and there has been a number of interesting things that he has said. Mandy. Speaker 2: The first thing he has said is that when he reached the depot in a Speaker 2: Stingo, he uploaded the drugs. However, he didn't process the drugs day at the scene. Speaker 2: He said that the depot was very busy, it was very congested, and that because Speaker 2: the drugs was five and forty one kilograms, because the drugs were so large and Speaker 2: quantitity, there wasn't enough space…
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