Tuesday 2 June 2015

Busted:South Africans caught abroad with Drugs

Nolubabalo Nobanda, Tessa Beedge, Elize De Jager & Taran Louise Chukwu are just some of the names of South AFrican Women caught in foreign countries trying to smuggle drugs into the countries. Using methods like hiding the narcotics is hair disguised as dreadlocks, sewing the drugs into the luggage bags and even pretending to be pregnant while hiding said drugs in fake tummies has not stopped the officials from catching these women.

These are people who, despite having bright futures ahead have opted to be drug mules. The quest to get rich quick and the greed of wanting the good life at zero to little cost. They then get caught in these foreign lands and start crying foul at how the government cares none about helping them out of the situations that they find themselves in. But why? How?

Is it really greed? Most of the drug mules claim they had no idea their luggage contain nacotices, as in the case of Tessa Beetge who claimed she had no idea that Sheryl Cwele had set her up by sending her to collect luggage that happened to be narcotics despite there being a tell-tale sign that she was in this knowingly. Or with Nolubabalo claiming she had been forced/threatened into taking the  drugs to Brazil. I don't know but dong braids is such a time consuming exercise for it to be something not consented to let alone a design made to accommodate packets of coke.

Are they bait? It is said that these mules that get caught, are actually not the transporters but a distractions. You see once they catch "the bait", the officials will be too busy dealing with her that the real transporter carrying more drugs will make a clean pass through customs without a glitch. These are the protected people that even airport security do their best to ensure they are not touched.

With all this being said, is it worthy? Is one's life worth a thousand IG posts paid for by drug transportation that one is not sure of when all will end?

by Queen Troll