You are a smuggler. Your bike is contraband. On a lucky day you will have your bike confiscated and a rap in the wrists, on a bad day you will be imprisoned, however for a short period of time.
One way or another it will cost you much more than the price of your bike in lawyers etc.
I would not go back to South Africa if I was you.
What an idiotic thing. you had the carnet de passage, dind't that tell you something about your rights and obligations?
Did anyone asked you to bring back a stuffed toy animal from SA that smelled strangely aromatic?
That would have completed the naivety combo, not to call it something else.
You deserve every headache you get.
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