Eight women were arrested and charged with being found in possession of dagga and appeared in court in Nhlangano, in Eswatini’s Shiselweni Region; dagga is the local name for cannabis.[1] The eight women had spent the long weekend in custody before they appeared in the Nhlangano court.[1] The women wept as they hoped for a lenient sentence after spending the long weekend in custody.[1]
Eight women appear in Nhlangano court charged with dagga possession
Eight women were arrested and charged with being found in possession of dagga and appeared in court in Nhlangano, in Eswatini's Shiselweni Region, where they wept as they awaited a sentence after spending the long weekend in custody. Eswatini, then still officially Swaziland, treats dagga as a poison under the Pharmacy Act and prosecutes possession in the magistrates' courts.
🇸🇿 Nhlangano, Shiselweni Region · Eswatini
- Arrested
- 8
- Charged
- 8
Sources
- Times of Eswatinipressreader.comEight women arrested for dagga possession
Open questions the AI reported
- The PressReader capture stops at a paywall after the opening paragraph, so the sentence, plea, bail decision, ages, quantities seized and the circumstances of arrest are not known.
- The article gives no separate date for the court appearance or the arrest; 8 September 2021 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date, and the reference to a long weekend in custody places the arrest a few days earlier.
- No figure for the dagga seized from the women was published in the accessible text, so no weight is recorded.
- Only one account of this court appearance could be found, and it sits behind a paywall.