Bond coins driver charged under Official Secrets Act

The driver of a South African trucking company, Prestige Carriers, contracted to transport boxes of bond coins into Zimbabwe, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act after he posted on social media an invoice and the amount of money he was carrying.

Tinashe Sikwila (32) was not asked to plead when he appeared before magistrate, Josephine Sande, who remanded him in custody to today for bail ruling.

It is the State's case that on September 20 this year, Sikwila, whose company was contracted by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to ferry the money, was part of the escort team that ferried two trunks of Zimbabwean bond coins from South Africa. The State alleges Sikwila was entrusted with providing maximum security to the money.