Both women, as Mouton's father Dan Mouton put it, are lucky.
He watched the news in horror last year when Janice Linden, from KwaZulu-Natal, was executed in China for trying to smuggle tik into that country.
"I told Anneline, you are very lucky. There someone was executed for her crime. Don't ever say you have bad luck," he said.
Mouton spent two years awaiting trial in Mauritius for trying to smuggle heroin in her shoes. She served more than seven of her 10-year jail sentence. The 37-year-old was released early for good behaviour but first her father had to fork out a fine of R30000.
He said he was overjoyed to see her on Thursday and so was the rest of the family.
Meanwhile Momplé's family is taking the news of her incarceration "quite badly" and so is her 19-year-old son.
Momplé, the headmistress of Carrington Primary School, was arrested on December3 at Heathrow Airport.
On Friday the UK Border Agency confirmed that Momplé pleaded guilty to "charges of importing cocaine" and a judge at the Isleworth Crown Court in London sentenced her to four years and nine months behind bars on Thursday.
She arrived at Heathrow on a flight from Rio de Janerio in Brazil.
Border Agency officers searched her backpack and found towels wrapped inside polythene bags.
"Tests revealed the towels had been soaked and impregnated with 6kg, and contained within them the equivalent of around 2.5kg of pure cocaine. The drugs, if cut and sold, would have had a UK street value of around £350000 (about R4.2-million)" a statement by the UK Border Agency revealed.
She admitted to investigators that she was supposed to fly to Dublin where someone was waiting to receive the package. For her trouble the 46-year-old single mother would have been paid R40 000.
Peter Avery, assistant director of the agency's criminal and financial investigations team, said: "That Annabella Momplé was a school teacher makes it all the more shocking that she was prepared to get involved in something like this. Class A drugs like cocaine can devastate families and communities."
According to the latest statistics from the British Home Office, 105 South Africans are serving sentences for a variety of offences in England and Wales.
Momplé's brother, Paddy Harper, said she had struck a plea bargain with the state. He said newspapers there reported that she had been recruited in Durban by people to whom her second husband owed money.
"She's done what she's done and she is in jail for it. But we'd be horribly disappointed if the police there didn't move on the people who recruited her - including her former husband. She shouldn't be the only person paying the price for what has happened," said Harper.
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