Police raided the farm in the eastern Free State and discovered manufacturing equipment and thousands of Mandrax tablets worth millions of rands.

Two people were arrested after fleeing the crime scene during the raid in Phuthaditjhaba, bringing the number of arrested suspected drug dealers to eleven after raids were also conducted in other provinces.

National Police Spokesperson Vishnu Naidoo, says a certain family in Gauteng is linked to these drug syndicates.

“It has to be a syndicate because these successes resulted from arrests and the discovery of laboratories made in Middelburg and Dobsonville in Soweto. On the discovery of the lab and the raid in Johannesburg, we found that all of these are linked to one family,” says Naidoo.

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