Agreements and Treaties. The SAG also signed bilateral counternarcotics cooperation agreements with Mozambique and Swaziland in 1995. New legislation provides the administrative framework whereby confiscation and restraint orders made in other countries can be enforced in South Africa. Legislation is also being prepared to provide a framework for South Africa to negotiate mutual legal assistance treaties with other countries. Cannabis is a traditional crop, particularly for rural South Africans, and is mostly destined for local consumption.
Local statistics indicate a large area of land under cultivation for cannabis.
Nigerian groups are known to play a large role in controlling trafficking operations via South Africa, though Indian, Pakistani and Chinese groups are also active. South Africa is the destination for a large amount of the mandrax smuggled from India through other eastern and southern African countries. Statistics also indicate a sharp rise in cocaine smuggling from Brazil to the region, large amounts of which are then re-exported to Europe. Heroin from Southwest and Southeast Asia is routed to South Africa through Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Dubai, with a sizeable quantity believed to be passing through Singapore's container port. It is then sent onward to the US and Europe.