Now as a cricket lover I have spent many an hour trying to explain the virtues of a match that lasts five days and often ends without a winner. When that fails I resort to explaining how it’s the perfect excuse for five consecutive days of drinking, which tends to win over even the most hardened of hearts .

It seems this woman turned to something a little more extreme, though, as 22-year-old Saffer Lynette Nosipho was caught with 19 kilograms of narcotics tucked into cricket gear and shoes. Here’s TimesLive:

[She] was about to board a flight to Addis Ababa [from New Delhi] on Sunday night when airport authorities caught her with the haul, worth about R100000…

The drugs were hidden inside arm guards worn by cricketers, ladies’ shoes and a laptop bag.

She was found with pseudoephedrine, a popular party drug in New Delhi, and over 2kg of heroin.

Now I’m not really much into the whole heroin scene but I would imagine that two kilograms of the dirty brown medicine would cost in excess of R100 000. Any junkies out there who can take a moment out of their busy schedules to confirm this?

Unfortunately Nosipho is part of a growing scourge of South Africans being busted for international drug-trafficking. TimesLive once more:

Patricia Gerber, director of Locked Up, a body that helps South African drug mules in prisons overseas, said more young women were being caught in India, Hong Kong and Turkey for drug-related crimes.

“Drug kingpins are targeting young, vulnerable women. It is horrific,” said Gerber.

I have often wondered, mostly after seeing Farhaan Berhardien’s name on the team sheet, whether our selectors weren’t on some kind of hard drugs which impaired their judgement. Perhaps we have our answer.

[source:timeslive]