• Tweet

RELATED ARTICLES

• Cwele finds out the law has no favours

The National Prosecuting Authority's KwaZulu-Natal spokeswoman, Natasha Ramkisson, said Cwele’s lawyer was handed a letter on Tuesday, saying she had to check in before 1pm on Thursday.

Regional correctional services spokeswoman Nokuthula Zikhali said there had been no sign of Cwele on Wednesday morning.

The former wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, Sheryl Cwele and co-accused Frank Nabolisa failed to have their convictions overturned on Monday. The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed their appeals, and increased their sentences from 12 to 20 years.

Court president Lex Mpati said the sentence imposed by the trial court was “disturbingly inappropriate”.

Cwele, 50, was only appealing her conviction, while Nabolisa appealed both his conviction and sentence. She was given three days after receipt of the judgment to hand herself over to authorities.

The pair were found guilty of drug dealing by the Pietermaritzburg High Court in May 2011. Both pleaded not guilty to conspiring to deal in drugs, to procuring a woman, Charmaine Moss, to collect drugs in Turkey, and to procuring another woman, Tessa Beetge, to smuggle cocaine from South America.

Nabolisa had been in custody until now, while Cwele was out on R100,000 bail.

.

Comments

• Sign in or sign up to comment

Tue May 21 08:39:51 SAST 2013 ::

Oct 3, 2012

comtsotsi

Wouldn,t wish to be her.There are lots of 26 and 28 gangs in Westville.I spent 2 weeks in there and it not a very nice place I KNOW
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

Coldcurry

Why do some people get given time to send themselves over and others go down to the docks immediately? Pls enli
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

Coldcurry

please enlighten me someone
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

maneater

give her some time, she still need to go to her hairdresser to have her hair done for her grand entrance, she's going in for a long time so what's the rush??tltltltltltlt
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

Mdeeva

Just go home,you can hide but you cant run,your fate is already decided
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

RobinH

Just enough time for her to get a dodgy passport and leave the country. I do not understand how she was given this time. She should have been shipped to prison straight from court like other people are.
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

Mosquer

"Cwele given deadline to report to jail"
Batho ba ja monate. Ba go kgopela go tla jele!!
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

spirro

this drug dealers must be given long sentences because they are distroying the future of the majority of youth here in south africa, i wonder if they do give to their kids this drugs as well
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

Mmaditopo

Preferential treatment at it's best! Why must she be begged to report to prison? Nx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Abuse

Oct 3, 2012

comtsotsi

@Maneater-Nothing happened to my ass bro,luckily a neighbour of mine was in and he protected me at a fee of course bcoz i didnt and still dont know anything about these nomboloz or numbers they were fighting about
Report Abuse

Read all 61 comments