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Six men are due to appear in court on Monday for being in possession of endangered cycads worth more than half-a-million rand.
Police spokesperson, Sergeant Majola Nkohli, says the men were arrested on the R-75 just outside Uitenhage on Thursday night.
He said police were tipped off about the alleged theft of cycads from a farm near Kirkwood.
Nkohli says the men, aged between 23 and 30 will appear in the Uitenhage Magistrate's Court on Monday on charges relating to the Environmental Affairs Act.
