Two Eastern Cape policemen who worked in a court dealing with cases of perlemoen poaching were themselves arrested this week for allegedly plundering the endangered species. Wayne Kuhn and Willem van ...

Cape Town - Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa announced on Wednesday a huge increase in fines for perlemoen (abalone) poaching. The maximum fine for poaching perlemoen goes up to ...

Hermanus, South Africa - Spotters for perlemoen poachers in Hermanus spot the police from afar and often mock them as they try to clamp down on the burgeoning illegal trade. The whistles and hand ...

Perlemoen poachers are wiping out South Africa's marine resources, but sometimes the pirated shellfish hit back. A Gauteng pilot, Tony Robinson, died in bizarre circumstances some time ago when the ...

In 2024, poachers stripped the Nelson Mandela Bay coastline of an estimated R1.2-billion worth of perlemoen, which ends up in Asia via the black market. Hundreds of illegal divers operate along the ...

A proposal that could curb the illegal trade in perlemoen has fallen between two stools, with neither the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism nor its fisheries arm able to explain why the ...

One woman in control of a most powerful aphrodisiac in the East - perlemoen - and the most powerful magnet of the West - money - trapped many men in her web. And all the roads of her allegedly ...

Perlemoen worth R86,000 was confiscated and a suspect arrested after a high-speed chase by Gqeberha flying squad members and Humewood police on Thursday. Police spokesperson Capt Sandra Janse van ...

A haul of perlemoen worth about R1-million was found hidden in the bushes along Port Elizabeth’s Marine Drive on Friday. Police spokeswoman Colonel Priscilla Naidu said members of the Port Elizabeth ...

“If we protect what we have, eventually generations to come will benefit from it,” says Ruben Saul, chairperson of the Doringbaai Development Trust. Saul is speaking to GroundUp about the Doring Bay ...

Cape Town — Police attached to the Western Cape's organised crime unit, assisted by border police, seized 16,500 frozen perlemoen (abalone) when they raided a factory in Parow on Thursday night, ...

Johannesburg — Two Eastern Cape policemen who worked in a court dealing with cases of perlemoen poaching were themselves arrested this week for allegedly plundering the endangered species. Wayne Kuhn ...