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Thupeyo Muleya
Beitbridge Bureau
A 33-year-old woman from Mbare, Harare, has been jailed for five years by a Beitbridge magistrate after she was found with 6,3 kg of dagga that is believed to have been smuggled from South Africa.
However, Brenda Chipfunde will spend four years and two months in jail after 10 months were suspended on the condition that she does not commit a similar offence in the next five years.
Chipfunde was convicted on her own plea of guilty when she appeared before Mr Mbonisi Kaweni.
Prosecuting, Mr Tawanda Chigavazira said on February 7 at around 6pm, detectives from Beitbridge Police Station were on patrol when they got information that Chipfunde was planning to transport dangerous drugs from Beitbridge to Harare.
The officers then tracked her to a hiking spot along the Beitbridge-Harare Highway where they found her looking for transport.
The police detectives identified themselves and requested to search her luggage, resulting in the discovery of 12 cobs of dagga that were wrapped in a duvet.
Chipfunde was subsequently arrested and the dagga was taken for weighing.
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