The ruling, which does not allow for the sale of the drug, is now under review by a higher court at the government’s request
Police investigation into killing of ‘Mr Cocaine’ reveals underworld connection.
The G8 have launched a strategy to curb drug trafficking by targeting west Africa, a major transit region for cocaine from Latin America to Europe.
Sheryl Cwele, the wife of state security minister Siyabonga Cwele, sat stony faced in the dock as Judge Piet Koen convicted her of dealing in cocaine.
Wanted Cuban fugitive and six others held after massive drug bust at Nqura harbour in the Eastern Cape.
West Africans are consuming more of the drugs trafficked between South America and Europe, raising the spectre of rising crime and health problems.
The wooden canoes stacked on the putrid beach tell not one story, but two. Once these locally made pirogues shipped out thousands of young men.
