TRANSNATIONAL CRIME: Motlanthe urges cops to target the cartel Big Boys to overhaul Africa’s drug policies

The world’s illicit drug landscape has changed, and to continue the fight requires new policies. One of these, explained former president Kgalema Motlanthe, who chairs the Eastern and Southern Africa Commission on Drugs, is the need for law enforcers to go after top traffickers instead of users, who are often arrested and simply add to overcrowded prisons.