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Criminal networks from West Africa have, in turn, spread to other regions—namely South Africa. Certain individuals central to the drug trade in West Africa carried practices and organizations to the south of the continent, where transit costs and risk of detection are relatively lower and new markets exist for harder drugs. [5]
The history of gangs in South Africa goes back to the Apartheid era. Many South African gangs began, and still exist, in urban areas. This includes cities like Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Cape Town has between 90 and 130 gangs [1] with the South African Police Service stating a total estimated membership of 100,000. [2]
A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per 100,000 in 2021 after a brief drop in 2020.
As a result, there was an influx in drug-trafficking across the Mexico–US border, which increased the drug cartel activity in Mexico. By the early 1990s, so much as 50% of the cocaine available in the United States market originated from Mexico, and by the 2000s, over 90% of the cocaine in the United States was imported from Mexico. [ 67 ]
15,000 kilos of cocaine, worth $1 billion, were recovered at a Philadelphia shipping port in 2019, one of the biggest drug seizures in U.S. history. Show comments Advertisement
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reports that cartels have developed a sophisticated production network, leveraging chemical supplies from China to manufacture these drugs in clandestine ...
Two 14K groups, 14K-Hau and 14K-Ngai, [20] are among seven Chinese criminal organizations operating in South Africa, represented in both Cape Town and Johannesburg, specializing primarily in extortion and abalone trafficking. In 2000, the estimated gross income from the illegal exportation of abalone to Hong Kong was US$32 million.
Authorities say this seizure will cause drug cartels to lose more than $8.4 billion. Authorities seized more than 1,400 metric tons of illicit drugs, including 225 tons of cocaine and 128 tons of ...