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TENSIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL TRACKS: Biker shot dead as SA drug busts rev up global outlaw motorcycle gang fears

Daily Maverick · 12 October 2026 at 00:33

TENSIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL TRACKS: Biker shot dead as SA drug busts rev up global outlaw motorcycle gang fears

A MAC’s Motorcycle Club member was murdered in a Pretoria shooting.

As tensions flare within South Africa’s biking community, there are also growing concerns that outlaw biker gangs with connections to cartel drug factories have designs on setting up shop in the country.

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TENSIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL TRACKS: Biker shot dead as SA drug busts rev up global outlaw motorcycle gang fears

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