20 September 2019 1 Min Read
Twitter divided as SA drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda returns after 8 years in Thai jail
In 2014, four years after she was arrested in Bangkok for smuggling cocaine from Brazil to Thailand, Makhanda’s Nolubabalo ‘Babsie’ Nobanda, left, enjoyed a visit from her mother, Honjiswa Mbewu, at Klong Prem prison. She returned home from Thailand on Thursday.
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Convicted SA drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda received a warm welcome from family and friends when she arrived at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Thursday. Nobanda was arrested in Thailand in 2011 after she was caught at a Bangkok airport smuggling drugs hidden in her dreadlocks.
Henk Vanstaen, a Thai resident who helped facilitate Nobanda's return, told DispatchLIVE that he believed Nobanda had come away for the ordeal a changed woman.
“She has definitely learnt from this experience. She has come out a better person, not only in terms of getting a degree and education, but in terms of her mental strength.”
Does she deserve a hero's welcome? Twitter is divided.
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