South African border authorities thwarted a major drug trafficking operation, seizing nearly R1 billion worth of methaqualone at Beitbridge.

South Africa's border police stopped a truck from Malawi that was driving into the country with drugs worth nearly one billion rand ($61 million), authorities said on Thursday.

South African authorities have intercepted a massive consignment of illicit drugs valued at nearly R1 billion at the Beitbridge border post, in what officials described as one of…