SA courts get tougher with cigarettes smugglers

TWO people, one of them a Zimbabwean, were last week jailed in South Africa as the neighbouring country gets tough on cigarette smugglers.

Prosecutors in that country are calling for stiffer penalties saying cigarette smuggling had become prevalent.

The Senwabarwana Regional Court in Limpopo province jailed 45-year-old Zimbabwean Oliver Mupanga to five years of direct imprisonment for possession of illicit cigarettes and entering into South Africa without a valid passport.

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