"The container was unusual in that it looked like a petrol tank and had a construction with pillars holding it together," police spokesperson Captain Sandra van Rensburg said.

"Inside the container we found 22 000 litres of oil and inside the pillars, the cocaine was hidden."

Police were still trying to establish the amount of drugs in the container. By late on Wednesday afternoon, they weighed out about 100kg, with an estimated street value of about R1.4bn.

Police suspect there was about 250kg of "pure cocaine".

"Right now, we still need to pump oil out of the container to see if there are more pillars inside," said Van Rensburg.

No arrests had been made yet.

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"The bust [by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Unit] followed an intensive undercover investigation conducted after the police's elite unit were tipped off," said police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Lesego Metsi.

Twenty-one kilograms of final product of what is suspected to be Tik, with a street value of R10m, was found.

Two men found inside the house were arrested. Police also found chemicals, raw-materials for drug production and equipment used to manufacture drugs.

Metsi said the police would be investigating the "operational network of this drug manufacture and dealers".

He said the two men, aged 27 and 28, will appear before the Klerksdorp Magistrate's court on August 23 facing charges of the manufacture of drugs and keeping a drug laboratory.

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The 28-year-old man was pulled over by traffic police for a traffic infringement at about 19:00, Lesiba Kgwele said.

He was allegedly transporting 23 bags of dagga from Ficksburg to Soweto.

Traffic officers realised that the licence disc on the car did not correspond with the number plates.

He also could not produce a driver's licence and was arrested.

He would appear in the Potchefstroom Magistrate's Court on Monday.

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And despite being three months pregnant, she told vice squad members who helped her that the father of her unborn child had still forced her to carry on with sex work.

Vice squad spokesman Neil Arendse said the 25-year-old woman approached members patrolling in Brooklyn last week and begged them to help her.

He said she told the members that her friend, a foreigner living in Cape Town, had paid for her flight from Joburg to Cape Town.

It was not clear when she arrived in the Western Cape.

"(Her friend) said he had a job for her in his shop.

"But when she got here there was no shop and he put her on heroin and forced her to work on the streets," Arendse said.

The woman, who said she was forced to work as a prostitute, had also said her friend had paid her in heroin.

"She told us we had to help her immediately because her friend wasn't there at that moment," Arendse said.

The woman had been staying with her friend in his car as he had nowhere to live.

Arendse said she was now staying in a place of safety and the Hawks were investigating her case.

During other operations some women had told vice squad members they had been bought from other areas, such as Pretoria and Joburg, and forced into prostitution but did not want to give this up as this meant giving up the drugs they were paid with, Arendse said.

"These girls are threatened and drugged... they have no motivation to go home," he said.

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