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Wet and dried abalone valued over R3.9 million was seized. The case against the duo was postponed to the 14 August 2019 for bail information and both suspects remain in custody.<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Police Service<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERN CAPE \ufffd Zhengiang WU (32) and David Jonas (20) appeared at Hermanus Magistrates court last week Thursday facing a charge of operating an illicit abalone drying facility.They were arrested on 06 August 2019 in a joint operation undertaken by memb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Poachers in court for over R3.9 million worth of abalone - South Africa Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/poachers-in-court-for-over-r3-9-million-worth-of-abalone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poachers in court for over R3.9 million worth of abalone - South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WESTERN CAPE \ufffd Zhengiang WU (32) and David Jonas (20) appeared at Hermanus Magistrates court last week Thursday facing a charge of operating an illicit abalone drying facility.They were arrested on 06 August 2019 in a joint operation undertaken by memb...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/poachers-in-court-for-over-r3-9-million-worth-of-abalone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-12T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/poachers-in-court-for-over-r3-9-million-worth-of-abalone\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/poachers-in-court-for-over-r3-9-million-worth-of-abalone\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sjadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b5258049232dc72b42ad1073df5c990f\"},\"headline\":\"Poachers in court for over R3.9 million worth of abalone\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-12T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-12T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/poachers-in-court-for-over-r3-9-million-worth-of-abalone\/\"},\"wordCount\":121,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Fashion &amp; 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