Police in KwaZulu-Natal are searching for suspects after 32 blocks of cocaine, worth about R13 million, were recovered at Durban Harbour on Tuesday.  

The drugs were found concealed inside the air-conditioning compartment of a bus that had been shipped from “a South American country” and was “destined for Gauteng”, according to police.

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The bust followed the recovery of drugs in Gauteng in April, after information indicated that the drugs had entered the country through Durban Harbour.

Intelligence was activated and certain vessels were profiled.

The latest seizure follows another multimillion-rand Durban-area cocaine bust in March, when police arrested a foreign national in Somerset Park after he was allegedly found with nearly 7kg of cocaine, valued at about R8 million.

Police units involved in Tuesday’s harbour operation included members of the Durban Operational Response Services and the

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South Africa’s film and television industry will stage national marches in Cape Town and Pretoria in late January 2026, warning that the continued dysfunction of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s (DTIC) Film and TV Incentive has pushed the sector to the brink of collapse.

Under the banner “Save SA Film Jobs – Fix the DTIC Film Incentive”, industry bodies representing thousands of workers across the value chain will mobilise on 28 January in Cape Town and 29 January in Pretoria, demanding urgent reforms to restart approvals, restore investor confidence and halt what they say is a deepening economic and human crisis.

According to the Save SA Film Jobs coalition, the incentive scheme, a cornerstone of South Africa’s creative economy, has effectively stalled.

“Our decline is the direct result of a poorly implemented and red-tape-riddled rebate system whose approvals have stalled, and a department that refuses

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