Executed drug mule's ashes buried

The ashes of executed drug mule Janice Linden have been buried near her family home in Wentworth, SABC news reported on Saturday.

Her ashes were buried at the tombstone of her mother's grave in the area south of Durban. Her mother died last year.

Linden was executed by lethal injection in China on December 12 after being convicted of drug smuggling.

The 38-year-old Durban woman was arrested in November 2008. She was found with 3kg of methamphetamine on her arrival at the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou's airport.

Linden maintained her innocence until her death, saying the drugs had been planted in her luggage. Both the Guangdong High Court and Supreme Court in Beijing rejected her appeal.

On Wednesday, an official from the international relations and co-operation department handed over the ashes to her family.

This week, it was reported that several South African woman had been arrested for drug trafficking in different countries over December.

The New Age newspaper reported that a young woman was arrested at Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe, having arrived on a flight from India, with two kilograms of cocaine.

This month, Nobanda Nolubabalo was arrested in Thailand when police discovered 1.5kg of cocaine in her fake dreadlocks.

In Mozambique, police arrested a South African woman for carrying drugs when she entered the country at Maputo International Airport on Christmas Eve.

Agence France-Presse reported that a 38-year-old South African woman was arrested for drug trafficking in Nigeria earlier in December.