WATCH WATCH: Drug dealers with cops on their payroll 14 September, 01:45 PM Journalist Paul McNally reports West Johannesburg drug dealers have weaned police officers onto their payroll with (regular) payments of as little as R50. “By doing that they basically buy police officers over a long-term basis.” WATCH: Crooked cops and drug dens in…
SUNDAY TIMES NEWS BY MZILIKAZI WA AFRIKA, 2016-10-02 South Africa’s high commissioner to Singapore is a convicted drug trafficker who was fired from SAA after being jailed in New York for smuggling a bag of cocaine. Fifty-five-year-old Hazel Francis Ngubeni spent two years in a US prison between 1999 and 2001, but did not disclose…
Irish News – Saturday 29 October 2016 Cathal McMahon Gardaí arrested three people and searched 14 airplanes as part of a major international crime-busting operation carried out over 11,000 locations worldwide. The global Operation Ciconia uncovered 2.38 tonnes of cocaine and identified 529 human trafficking victims. A total of 386 people were arrested following the week-long operation.…
CRIME & COURTS / 09 Jun ’16, 07:23am Botho Molosankwe Johannesburg – For years, a Joburg police officer allegedly lived a luxurious lifestyle, residing at a plush house in an upmarket estate and driving several sleek vehicles. But on Wednesday, his alleged high life appeared to crumble when the police swooped on him for being…
OPINIONMonday 26 January 2015 – 3:36pmContributors: Rebecca Davis Rebecca Davis looks at the growing evidence that some drug mules may actually be the victims of human trafficking. Last week, 28-year-old Deon Cornelius became the latest South African to be convicted for smuggling methamphetamine into an Asian country with stringent drug laws – in this case,…
BY MELISSA DARLYNE CHOW – 25 MAY 2016 @ 3:11 PM ALOR STAR: A South African was today sent to the gallows by the High Court for trafficking 1,598.3 grammes of methamphetamine three years ago. Benjamin William Hawkes, 46, nodded his head in understanding when the judgment was handed down by Judicial Commissioner Choo Kah…
May 19, 2016 Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent – Zimbabwe ABOUT 200 Zimbabweans, mostly women, are on death row in China after they were arrested for drug trafficking, an MP has said. Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development parliamentary portfolio committee chairperson Cde Beatrice Nyamupinga moved a motion on human trafficking in the National Assembly on…
Friday 29 May 2015 14:09 SABC The United Nations states that individuals who are coerced into international drug smuggling should be considered victims of human trafficking. South African citizens Thando Pendu and Babsie Nobanda are serving sentences in a Thai prison for drug smuggling – a crime they insist they were forced to commit. According…
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2016-05-05 16:00 Thulani Gqirana, News24 Cape Town – Drug dealers are a curse in the country and need to be rooted out, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. “Children are abusing parents, stealing furniture at home for money for drugs. Drug dealers are a real curse in the country,” he said in the reply to…