Two men from Zimbabwe face five years behind bars after a court found them guilty of having illegal stuff worth R8 million. Samuel Nkomo, 38, and Josephat Mawire, 46, heard their fate at the Polokwane Specialised Commercial Crimes Court. New Zimbabwe first broke this news, with LOL and Sowetan Live backing up the story.
Police stopped these men during a search check on September 11, 2024. Officers from the Capricorn Flying Squad patrolled the R521 road, also called Dendron Road. They pulled over a white Rigid Man Truck and looked inside. What they found shocked them - 908 boxes of Adalya Premium Hookah Tobacco wrapped in plastic bags.
The National Prosecuting Authority said this tobacco came all the way from Turkey. But these men had...