SA woman tells of ‘sex slave hell’
February 17 2012 at 08:15am
By GRAEME HOSKEN
Escaping from certain “hell” a Pretoria teenager has described how what seemed a dream job opportunity turned into a nightmare when attempts were made to force her into prostitution.Women duped in jobs scam
Feb 21 2012 7:12AM
Women duped in jobs scam
Zodidi Mhlana
KwaZulu-Natal police are investigating a human trafficking case involving nine young South African women.Local executed in China
Hundreds of South Africans are in foreign jails for drug trafficking. Why is our government not bringing them home?
South African Janice Bronwyn Linden was found guilty of smuggling three kilogrammes of crystal meth into China in 2009 and was executed by lethal injection this morning.
Her death has everyone talking: why was she not brought back to South Africa? Does our constitution not allow for the extradition of South Africans in international prisons?
Although the Department of International Relations says President Zuma did everything possible to prevent her execution, questions remain.
Last year, our Health Editor Elizabeth Atmore investigated the issue. This is an excerpt from her Trading With Their Lives report; it can be found in the July 2010 issue of FAIRLADY:
Janice’s sisters tell of last visit
“You must come and see me soon.” These were the tearful words of Janice Linden to her two sisters, Nomalizwi Mhlophe and Priscilla Mthalane, during a 45-minute visit at Guandong prison in China, the day before she was executed by lethal injection. She was not aware that she was going to die and one of the conditions of the visit was that her sisters from Durban were not allowed to tell her. Linden, 36, was arrested three years ago at the Baiyun International Airport after 3kg of tik (methamphetamine) was found in her luggage.
SA drug mules fill foreign jails
MORE than 600 South African drug mules and drug traffickers are in foreign jails. Almost half of these are in
jails in South America.
Sheryl Cwele, also top and left, keeping up appearances.
This week, five South Africans were arrested in Sao Paulo on allegations of drug trafficking.
Jailed Toti drug mule comes home
Jailed Toti drug mule comes home
12 January 2012 | Jenny Bipat - South Coast SUN
A 51-YEAR-OLD Toti woman who spent nearly three years in a Peruvian jail for drug trafficking is back home with her family. "I want to find work and get my life back together. I am not going anywhere with anybody, down the coast, yes, but not on a plane," she said.
The woman does not wish to be named, as she fears being victimised, as she wants a fresh start.
"From Lima, Peru I flew to Sao Paulo and when I got on the plane to Johannesburg on December 30, 2011 it was with a great sense of relief, knowing I was at last coming back home," she said.Drug mule’s hell
Janice Linden s family is in turmoil after their desperate efforts to save her from being executed in China failed.
Nolubabalo Nobanda, 23, left, was found with drugs in her fake dreadlocks.
Duped into taking a job overseas, forced to swallow over a kilogram of drugs on four different continents, not getting paid and deprived of food for not obeying orders. This is the picture painted by a South African drug mule currently in hiding with two others after escaping from Istanbul in Turkey, where she made a U-turn to SA instead of Bangladesh where she was supposed to collect drugs.
Letter to Mr Jacob Zuma - execution of SA citizen
On the Etv news at 7 pm on the 10 December 2011 it was announced that a South African citizen Janice Bronwyn Linden will be executed on Monday after Dirco was unsuccessful in having her sentence commuted to life.
Parliamentary Question: Dcs: Budget vote
Mr J Selfe (DA) to ask Minister of Correctional Services; Whether, with reference to her statement in her speech on her department’s Budget Vote, she has made any progress in negotiating any prisoner transfer agreements with other countries; if so, what are the relevant details; if not, what (a) impediments are preventing the negotiation of such agreements and (b) action is she taking to overcome the specified impediments?
Crimes Against Humanity
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Through my experience I have come to realize that there are many captives in Mauritius, people without a voice, hope or means to freedom as human rights are non existent. Being the only source of hope to some of these people I have vowed to tell the world what I have seen and heard. People make mistakes but there is always hope for redemption.
I will try and tell you our story as briefly as I can:
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