CAPE TOWN - Former police minister, Bheki Cele, says in 1994, during his training at Scotland Yard, he was told South Africa would be a playground of drugs and gangsters.
This is exactly what the country is witnessing now, Cele says.
He told Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee on political interference in the police that South Africa is under siege when it comes to this drug issue.
"We have found a lucrative market in transit".
Cele cited three reasons for this issue.
“One is our aviation system, which we expand to the whole world. Secondly, it is the strength of our current. Bank system that it is easy to move money, and it has happened exactly that way. We are a new playground of drugs both transit and consumption.”