In this short podcast series, we follow Sunday Times top investigative journalists as they cover the real stories that make-up SA’s national headlines.
Boots on the ground is a true piece of mobile journalism — all interviews, voices and sound effects have been gathered using nothing but smartphones.
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In this short podcast series, we follow Sunday Times top investigative journalists as they cover the real stories that make-up SA’s national headlines.
Boots on the ground is a true piece of mobile journalism — all interviews, voices and sound effects have been gathered using nothing but smartphones.
Boots on the ground is a production of MultimediaLIVE, a division of Arena Holdings.
PLEASE NOTE: This podcast may contain explicit and sensitive content. Listener discretion is advised.
#Investigation, #Police, #SocialJustice, #Crime, #ServiceDelivery
Cape of Cocaine EP 1 - Discovery on the shores of Saldanha Bay
Boots on the ground
34 minutes 24 seconds
3 years ago
Cape of Cocaine EP 1 - Discovery on the shores of Saldanha Bay
On March 1 2021 the Windward, a Bulgarian mafia cocaine ship, was three days behind schedule docking at Saldanha Bay harbour on SA’s west coast.
Bulgarian cocaine fleet manager Asen Ivanov and his Bulgarian associates were waiting, probably worried their Myanmar crew had become lost in thick fog or rough seas.
Unbeknown to him, he had much bigger problems because watching the mafia’s every move was Lt-Col Johan Smit and members of the Western Cape police’s narcotics unit.
When the drug dealers approached the ship, the moment the police officers had been planning for months arrived.
They were on the cusp of one of the biggest drug busts in SA history and inadvertently exposing a large secret crime organisation.
Boots on the ground
In this short podcast series, we follow Sunday Times top investigative journalists as they cover the real stories that make-up SA’s national headlines.
Boots on the ground is a true piece of mobile journalism — all interviews, voices and sound effects have been gathered using nothing but smartphones.
Boots on the ground is a production of MultimediaLIVE, a division of Arena Holdings.
PLEASE NOTE: This podcast may contain explicit and sensitive content. Listener discretion is advised.
#Investigation, #Police, #SocialJustice, #Crime, #ServiceDelivery
