Central SA
Suspects found with lion meat to appear in court─── 15:18 Mon, 22 Jul 2019
Three men are expected to appear in the Klerksdorp Magistrate’s Court in the North West tomorrow morning on charges of the contravention of section 57 of the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act.
This comes after police found the suspects to be in possession of illegal game products on 26 November last year. They were arrested at an intersection of the N12 and Dominionville, driving a convoy headed to an unused farm in Maaretsane outside Sannieshof in the North West. According to North West Hawks spokesperson, Captain Tlangelani Rikhotso, police searched the vehicles and found lion meat and bones, tiger skin, a gas cylinder, gas burner, containers, a saw, knives and other objects which are believed to have been used to process the lion bones. Charges against two other accused were dropped while the state entered into an agreement with four other accused who were given suspended sentences and ordered to leave the country at own expenses.
OFM News/Joba Matsheng
