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Namibia: Unemployment, allure of cash sees spike in SA drug mules held in foreign jails – News

Namibia: Unemployment, allure of cash sees spike in SA drug mules held in foreign jails – News

Africa Links 24 with Shaun Smillie
Published on 2024-09-26 15:00:00

Vincent Ntsolo is four years into an eight-year sentence in a Hong Kong jail.

He was just 18 years old when he was caught by customs officials trying to smuggle 1.9kg of cocaine through Hong Kong to China. He is one of many South Africans recruited as drug mules.

“By God’s grace, he didn’t get to [mainland] China. It was fortunate that he was arrested in Hong Kong. They didn’t tell him that China has the death penalty,” says Australian Catholic priest John Wotherspoon, who…

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