Police said they were sitting on R3-billion worth of counterfeit clothes in Gauteng alone.
On Saturday, police destroyed piles of counterfeit luxury clothes, sneakers, boots, and other items.
The confiscated items were kept at a warehouse in Randfontein.
Police Minister Bheki Cele said counterfeit items negatively affect the country’s economy.
He said Sars [South African Revenue Service] does not receive any tax on counterfeit items and legitimate businesses lose out on customers.
“It’s an economic cancer that is eating in the fibre of the growth of the economy in the country as I have termed it, it is economic sabotage that is equal to a bloodless coup when it comes to the economy.”
The police said the shredded pieces from the clothes are recycled for various other uses.
-EWN
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