FAKE DOP FACTORY BUSTED

SEVEN Somalis have been busted inside an illegal booze factory. 

Cops swooped on the facility on the R44 in Klapmuts on Monday and found the place kitted out with alcohol manufacturing equipment and bottles. 

According to police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg, five men and two women were vasgevat. 

He reported: “On Monday, 08 September 2025 members of the Maitland Flying Squad followed up information about a facility that is manufacturing illegal alcohol. 

“The members visited the premises on the R44 in Klapmuts and found the facility with alcohol manufacturing equipment inside the building. 

“Seven Somalian nationals, five males aged between  25 and 43 and two females both 20 were arrested for Contravention of the Liquor Act.

“The equipment that were confiscated are containers containing ethanol, ten big white 1000 litre containers, empty bottles and machines.

“Once charged the suspects are due to appear in the Paarl Magistrates’ court on the mentioned charges.”

Earlier this year, in February, the Daily Voice reported on a case where an illegal liquor manufacturing facility was bust in Philippi. 

Following investigations by the Maitland Flying Squad in tracking the Six Bobs gang, they raided a storage facility, uncovering dwelms and the booze.

Twigg reported at the time that dagga weighing approximately one ton and counterfeit alcohol was discovered.