Standerton Regional Court gives drug dealer three-year suspended sentence
The police arrested the suspect earlier this year and confiscated dagga valued at R450 000.
Bonginkosi Zwelibanzi Manana (33) received a three-year prison sentence, wholly suspended for five years. He was also declared unfit to possess a firearm after being found guilty in the Standerton Regional Court on December 8 of drug dealing.
Ermelo and Standerton K9 Unit members arrested Manana on January 23.
Information was received about a suspicious Nissan Navara bakkie travelling on the R35 between Morgenzon and Amersfoort, transporting cannabis.
The K9 members followed up on the information.
They pursued the vehicle, and when the suspects tried to flee, it overturned.
The two male occupants sustained slight injuries.
The driver, a Swaziland national known as Saluleko Samora Dladla (43), told the members the dagga came from Swaziland.
Members arrested the two and confiscated the dagga valued at R450 000.
The case was then transferred to the Hawks Secunda-based Serious Organised Crime Investigation Unit for further investigation.
Dladla and Manana appeared before the Morgenzon Magistrate’s Court on several occasions. The matter was later transferred to Standerton Regional Court.
The case against Dladla was withdrawn.
