DA-MPL, Vicky Knoetze says millions of rands worth of lemons are being stripped from orchards in the valley at night, using 30-ton trucks and bakkies.
She says export-quality lemons are being targeted, which can sell for more than R10 000 a ton.
Knoetze says in a statement "On Friday 11 March 2016 myself and DA Shadow MEC for Safety and Security, Bobby Stevenson MPL, visited the station commander of the Addo police station to impress upon him the urgency of bringing the syndicate to book that is engaged in stripping orchards in the Sunday’s River Valley.
"We also asked him to refer this matter to the Hawks as this is obviously a highly organised operation."
