Dagga possession lands couple in court

An elderly couple escaped jail by a whisker after Urban Customary Court President Kgosi Dikwalo Monametsi fined the boyfriend for unlawful possession of dagga.

Kgosi Monametsi warned Mary Moabi, 52, and her boyfriend Mponaphi Teemane, 56, to desist from trading in habit-forming drugs like dagga.

Moabi and Teemane were jointly charged for possessing dagga weighing over 85grams in December last year.However, Moabi was discharged because she is the one who alerted the police as to who owned the dagga found in a dustbin outside their house.

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