City resident faces charges of growing mbanje

has appeared in court.
Nongqawuse Prisca Ngwemba is being charged with contravening Section 157(1) (C) of the Criminal Law codification and Reform Act chapter 9:23 for “cultivating 20 plants of dagga”.
She was not asked to plead when she appeared before Magistrate Mr Don Ndirowei on Wednesday, who granted her US$50 bail.
Her trial date has been set for April 28.
Prosecutor Ms Svodai Kadivirire alleges that on March 31, detectives from Braeside Police Station received information that Ngwemba who resides at Number 36A St Andrews Road in Hatfield, was planting dagga in her garden.
It is the State’s case that the detectives reacted to the information and went to her house.
While at the house the detectives discovered that Ngwemba had cultivated 20 plants of mbanje in her garden.
She was arrested and the 20 plants were uprooted.
The plants were measured and had an average height of 2,5 metres.
They were brought to the court as exhibits.