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The Department of International Relations and Cooperation says it will continue to render consular services to jailed drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda.
The Grahamstown woman was sentenced to 15 years in jail in Thailand today for smuggling 1.5kg of cocaine worth an estimated R1.2m in her dreadlocks.
She was also sentenced to a fine of R250,000 and if she cannot pay this she will have another two years added to her sentence.
Nobanda was originally sentenced to 30 years in jail but was granted leniency for assisting the Thai police investigation.
Clayson Monyela of the Department of International Relations.
"Now that she has been sentenced to 15 years in jail with the possibility of two more years if she is unable to pay the fine this is what we will continue to do, we will visit her in jail regularly as we do with other prisoners incarcerated in Thailand and other countries, and the consular services will also be extended to her family" Monyela said.
