In 2024, poachers stripped the Nelson Mandela Bay coastline of an estimated R1.2-billion worth of perlemoen, which ends up in Asia via the black market. Hundreds of illegal divers operate along the ...
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'Zama zamas of the sea' — Perlemoen poachers invade Nelson Mandela Bay’s boat channel
A channel reserved for launching and docking boats has become the latest target of illegal perlemoen harvesters along the Gqeberha coastline.
In little over a year, a dedicated anti-poaching operative has recovered 100 bags of illegally harvested perlemoen along the Nelson Mandela Bay coastline. Working with his team from Dark Water Ops, a ...
Cape Town - A bloody battle, apparently with links to China, is playing out in the Western Cape as a tussle for control of the lucrative perlemoen trade in the province intensifies. According to ...
'The poaching is never going to stop." Several poachers sit in a simple house in Hangberg above Hout Bay, chatting as they pass around a bottleneck pipe filled with tobacco and dagga. "We are poor, we ...
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