The 61-year-old is considered the world’s largest drug trafficker since the death of Colombia’s Pablo Escobar
South Africa’s jails have one of the lowest percentages of women prisoners in the world – but among the highest number of men
Budi Waseso says crocodiles would be better at preventing drug traffickers from escaping prison as they could not be bribed – unlike human guards.
Mexican authorities have discovered a "sophisticated" tunnel likely intended for smuggling drugs and migrants across the US-Mexico border.
A South African woman has been arrested while trying to smuggle 2.6kg of methamphetamine into the Indonesian resort island of Lombok.
A South African woman who is due to be executed by China for drug smuggling is apparently unaware of her fate, as is the practice of the state.
The Zambian fugitive behind a dubious circumcision project in KZN has friends in high places in SA, including a president, a king and an ex-spy boss.
US border police have found a sophisticated drug smugglers’ tunnel the length of six football fields linking Southern California with Mexico.
Zambia’s drug-busting agency has approached Interpol to help bring the man behind the controversial Tara KLamp circumcision device back home.
An SAA flight attendant has been jailed for seven years in the United Kingdom after trying to smuggle drugs into the country.
An SAA flight attendant has been charged with trying to smuggle 3kg of cocaine into Britain, the UK Border Agency said on Monday.
China has sentenced to death a South African woman for drug-smuggling, state media said on Friday.
China has executed a British citizen caught smuggling heroin, the British Foreign Office said, in a move condemned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Packed with cocaine and grimly christened ”coffins”, sleek jungle-built submarines are steaming their way north from Colombia for the US market.
All luggage belonging to South African Airways crew members will be physically searched, the Airports Company SA and the airline said on Monday.
Cabinet has mandated Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa to ensure effective steps are taken to prevent SAA staff smuggling drugs.
New equipment to detect drugs in the baggage of SAA crew and passengers was brought into use on Wednesday morning.
A special task team was formed on Tuesday to tackle drug-trafficking through South African airports.
Fifteen members of a SAA flight crew were arrested at Heathrow airport on Monday after cocaine worth R3,6-million was discovered in a bag.
The case against a security guard and an SAA cabin crew member arrested for alleged drug smuggling was postponed on Friday.
