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A screen grab from a television station in Thailand of Nolubabalo ‘Babsie’ Nobanda when she was nabbed smuggling cocaine in her dreadlocks.Image: File photo/Archive
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Drug mule Babsie Nobanda got a degree in Thai prison

Drug mule Nolubabalo “Babsie” Nobanda, from Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, is ready to become a productive member of society, armed with a degree she obtained through distance learning while in a Thai prison. So says good samaritan Henk…

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Four years after she was arrested in Bangkok for smuggling cocaine from Brazil to Thailand in her dreadlocks, Makhanda’s Nolubabalo ‘Babsie’ Nobanda, left, enjoyed a visit from her mother Honjiswa Mbewu at Klong Prem prison at the end of 2014 Image: Supplied
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She’s coming home – ‘Babsie’ to be freed from Thai jail

It’s official: convicted Makhanda drug mule Nolubabalo “Babsie” Nobanda is coming home. In an early morning phone call to DispatchLIVE on Wednesday, Henk Vanstaen, the Good Samaritan who has been assisting South Africans incarcerated in…

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