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- A drug lord from Secunda was sentenced to 20 years in direct prison.
- Enzani Wiseman Shongwe and eight other members of the union were captured in 2016.
- Shongwe’s eight accomplices are serving 144 years in prison combined.
A Secunda drug dealer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking and manufacturing drugs.
Enzani Wiseman Shongwe, 31, was sentenced by the Secunda Regional Court on Thursday.
Shongwe was arrested in August 2016, along with eight other members of the drug union.
They were arrested by the Hawks Serious Organized Crime unit.
Hawks spokesman Capt. Dineo Lucy Sekgotodi said Operation “Project 24” was targeting the manufacture and sale of drugs in and around Secunda.
Sekgotodi said the eight people arrested with Shongwe pleaded guilty in court. In 2018, they were sentenced to a total of 144 years in combined prison.
“However, Shongwe chose to go to trial and appeared several times in Secunda Regional Court, while in custody since his arrest in 2016. Shongwe was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to 15 years in direct prison for each of all three drug trafficking charges.
“The first two of the three sentences will be executed at the same time, and he will serve an effective direct prison term of 20 years,” Sekgotodi said.
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