{"id":49531,"date":"2016-05-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/49531\/nyaope-factory-busted\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T09:39:18","slug":"nyaope-factory-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/28\/nyaope-factory-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyaope &#8216;factory&#8217; busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to W.O. David Mbenekazi, Hendrina police spokesperson, officers noticed a board under a bed in a shack they were searching.<\/p>\n<p>Upon closer inspection they discovered that the board covered a hole in the ground, dug directly underneath the bed. Antiretroviral medicine and cannabis (dagga) kept in clear plastic bags were discovered in the hole.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether 30 containers of ARV&#8217;s and 25 matchboxes filled with cannabis were found. It is suspected that the drugs were being used to make nyaope which was then sold in Kwazamokuhle.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/49185\/biggest-bust-yet-at-sa-border\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News: Biggest bust yet at SA border<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/48100\/heroin-worth-millions-seized\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heroin worth millions seized<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/43025\/drug-cases-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drug cases in court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although there is no fixed recipe, nyaope, a drug unique to South Africa, usually consists out of a mixture of cannabis, heroin, ARV medicine and other chemicals such as rat poison that is smoked.<\/p>\n<p>The ARV containers recovered all had the words &#8216;Middelburg G Hospital&#8217; printed on the labels.<\/p>\n<p>W.O. Mbenekazi said that a woman, Nonhlanhla Mapanga (29), was arrested. She appeared in the Hendrina Magistrates Court facing a charge of drug possession.<\/p>\n<p>Read other stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/44309\/two-burn-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">(Video) Breaking News: Two burn to death<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/41824\/breaking-news-suspect-in-bestiality-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News: Suspect in bestially case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hendrina police busted what seems like a makeshift nyaope factory during an operation in Kwazamokuhle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[2584,1439,1049,1814,1093,1992,1267,2534,4625,1088],"class_list":["post-49531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-assult","tag-community-2","tag-danger","tag-drug-bust","tag-drugs","tag-gevaar","tag-hospital","tag-nyaope","tag-nyope-boys","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["assult","community","danger","drug bust","drugs","gevaar","hospital","nyaope","nyope boys","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}