News | A policy brief titled Hiding in plain sight revealed that Tanzanian networks have been pivotal in developing local heroin markets – especially in South Africa. By vonchy_19
The report released on Thursday, a policy brief titled Hiding in plain sight: Heroin’s stealthy takeover of South Africa, is authored by Simone Haysom, a senior analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime.
The report followed last year’s Enact study on The Heroin Coast, which looked into the transit heroin route across a portion of the east coast of Africa and South Africa for transhipment to, primarily, Europe and North America. This route was one of three major heroin routes out of Afghanistan – the major producer of the drug – which had its major markets in Europe and North America.
For example, in Cape Town, Nelson Mandela Bay, Johannesburg and Tshwane, Tanzanians largely control heroin supply, the report found. In suburbs where South African gangs control retail drug markets, Tanzanians act as a “wholesalers” and supply heroin to those who distribute and sell it.
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