SA drug mule convicted in Zimbabwe

A South African woman was last week sentenced to 12 years in jail after a Harare court found that she had tried to smuggle cocaine into the country from Brazil. A report on the EWN site notes that Harare Chief Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi handed down the sentence four months after Sheila Khumalo’s arrest at Robert Mugabe International Airport. Immigration officials stopped her as she tried to exit through the green route. They found just under 1kg of cocaine hidden in her baggage. Her lawyer had denied that Khumalo was a dealer, saying that she intended to use the drugs herself. The court set aside two years of the sentence on condition of good behaviour.