NEWS IN BRIEF

UPINGTON A 37-year-old man has been sentenced in the Upington Magistrate’s Court to an effective eight years imprisonment for dealing in drugs and money laundering. Sunday Nwankow was arrested by the Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigating Unit on October 24 2017 while he was travelling from Rustenburg to Upington with a large amount of drugs, with an estimated street value of R204 300. He was found guilty of dealing in drugs and money laundering.

RITCHIE An inquest has been registered after the body of a 46-year-old man was found by a passer-by in the veld near the Anglican Church in Ritchie earlier this week.

“At this stage there is no information about the possible cause of death,” said police spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Dimakatso Mooi.

PROVINCE The Northern Cape Department of Correctional Services has disputed a report by the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (Jics) tabled in Parliament recently, that indicated that the Province had four suicides among inmates at prisons during 2017/18. Northern Cape Department of Correctional Services spokesperson, Puleng Mokhoane, said that the department was “concerned about this misleading statistic” (reported by Jics) and said that according to their own records, “there had not been an unnatural death of an offender at any correctional centres in the Northern Cape during 2016/17 and 2017/18”.