I swallowed 100 cocaine capsules

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Cape Town - A Mitchells Plain mom had no idea her decision would lead to her ending up in a hellish foreign prison for SIX YEARS, where luxuries like running water, toilets and clean food don’t exist.

Roekieyah Lorraine Benjamin, 45, of Eastridge was caught with 100 capsules of cocaine at the Quadro De Fevereiro Airport in Angola in February 2010.

The unemployed mom said the prison has changed her forever. For one, she now speaks in broken English with a heavy Portuguese accent – the foreign language spoken in Angola – that she was forced to learn to survive.

Her journey began in January 2010, when she was recruited to become a drug mule, hoping to earn R20 000 with which she was going to use to buy a home for her and her three kids.

Benjamin was a single parent, working at a take-aways, and had been pushed from pillar to post with her children, that time aged 18, 15 and 8.

The mom said she was desperate when she agreed to meet a “recruiter” at her workplace in Lentegeur, after she was recommended by a friend.

“He told me I will get R20 000 and I told myself I need the money to put my children in a place. They told me straight, I would deliver drugs and I could decide where I wanted to transport it, in a bag or clothing or I could swallow it.”

She was to transport cocaine from Sao Paulo, in Brazil, to an airport in Angola, where she was supposed to meet a dealer.

She left Cape Town International Airport on January 13, 2010, and was going to spend a week in Brazil.

“I was not nervous, I knew I had to be focused,” she said.

She met the dealer at a bus stop, and chose to swallow the drugs.

Benjamin explained: “But I ended up staying for a month because I couldn’t swallow, they taught me how, a little bit at a time.”

One morning in February 2010, with 100 capsules in her tummy, she boarded a flight to Maputo, Mozambique, from where she would catch another flight to the Quadro De Fevereiro Airport in Angola.
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Sad, stupid, but she's lucky Angola abolished the death penalty
 
For one, she now speaks in broken English with a heavy Portuguese accent – the foreign language spoken in Angola
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Like people I know who go to Cape Town and come back with that weird accent they have there.
 
She had no idea her decision would had the potential consequences she went through?

Yeah, right.... shejust hoped she wouldn't be caught.
 
Sorry no sympathy from me. You could have killed lot's of other people.
 
If you can lose your accent in 6 years AND not know the potential dire consequences of what you're about to do.... can you legally have children if you should be taken care of in a mental institution for severe lack of cognitive abilities? I'm amazed she can even walk...
 
If she was able to swallow a few capsules at a time over the course of a month, were they building up in her stomach? How would she get them when she needed to hand them over?
 
I want to say that it should be law that poor people may not have children ... that it is child abuse.

But I also know that humans on this planet are suppose to be free to do whatever they want ... I and I agree with it.

But really - more effort should be made to dissuade people to have children if they can't afford them.
 
Leonidas said:
I want to say that it should be law that poor people may not have children ... that it is child abuse.

But I also know that humans on this planet are suppose to be free to do whatever they want ... I and I agree with it.

But really - more effort should be made to dissuade people to have children if they can't afford them.
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Came here to say this.
 
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