A South African woman has been arrested after she was found in possession of drugs worth R1.2 million as she arrived at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg from Brazil, police said on Sunday.
"Members from customs and excise conducted routine checks and discovered that the woman had concealed over 4kg drugs, believed to be cocaine, in books which were in her check-in luggage," Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said in a statement.
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