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Convicted drug mule Tessa Beetge has asked the international relations department not to release information regarding her.
Spokesperson Nelson Kgwete says Beetge does not want the department to comment on the circumstances around her.
Beetge's family apparently expect her to return to South Africa from Brazil by the end of March.
Beetge was caught with 10.2kg of cocaine in her luggage at Sao Paulo International Airport in 2008 and has been in jail in the south american country ever since. .
Her mother Marie Swanepoel died in an East London hospital in October after a short illness.
Beetge was procured by Sheryl Cwele to smuggle cocaine from South America.
Cwele, the ex-wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, and her co-accused Frank Nabolisa were found guilty of drug dealing
by the Pietermaritzburg High Court in May 2011.
The two tried to have their convictions overturned by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2012, but instead the court increased their sentences from 12 to 20 years.
