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/ 31 July 2006

Hidden facets

The misty West Coast town of Port Nolloth is in an uproar over the eight-year jail term handed out to a popular resident for racketeering. But the case does not seem to have dented business in South Africa’s gem smuggling capital. Antonio Cesar Alves dos Santos was convicted and sentenced in the Cape High Court last month after an 18-month Scorpions probe.