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2 British 'drug mules' jailed in Zimbabwe
Two young British nationals have been handed lengthy prison terms after being caught attempting to smuggle more than 66 kilograms of cannabis into Zimbabwe.In a statement, the National Prosecu...Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 18:37hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Alleged cop drug mule acquitted
A police officer stationed at Buchwa in the Midlands province was acquitted on Friday of allegations that he conspired with drug syndicates to collect drugs from India while he was on leave.Ha...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'High technology needed to combat drug smuggling,' in Zimbabwe
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has called on the Government to invest in state-of-the-art technologies at the country's ports of entry and exit to combat the smuggling of illicit drugs and...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean drug mule recalls her time in an Indian prison
Despite Asia's tough stance on drug trafficking, some African women risk it all for the money.News24 caught up with a former Zimbabwean drug mule who found herself jailed in India in 2015 afte...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foreign nationals arrested in Zimbabwe over drugs
THREE foreign nationals have been arrested at the country's airports between September and this month while trying to smuggle heroin to India with a combined street value running into millions of doll...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Courier dumps 695g of cocaine at lodge
INVESTIGATIONS have revealed that the unknown Harare woman believed to be part of a drug trafficking syndicate who recruited and hired an Indian courier who abandoned 695g of cocaine worth over $6,5 m...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA drug mule faints in Zimbabwean court
A drug smuggler fainted on Tuesday after she was jailed for 12 years by a Harare court.South African Shila Khumalo swallowed 60 balls of cocaine wrapped in plastic as she travelled from Brazil...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA drug mule jailed 12 years in Zimbabwe
SOUTH African drug dealer, Shila Khumalo, who was convicted in May this year, collapsed at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday shortly after chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi sentenced her to 12 ...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SA drug mule denies charges
The South African woman arrested last week at Robert Mugabe International Airport while allegedly smuggling into Zimbabwe US$7 770 000 worth of cocaine from Brazil, yesterday denied dealing in dangero...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:41hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
SA soldiers facilitating illegal entry of Zimbabweans
Some rogue elements within the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) are ripping off Zimbabwean business people by demanding huge bribes to facilitate their entry into South Africa for the purp...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police criminal syndicate busted
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) and the Drugs and Narcotics outfit that falls under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have busted an alleged underground syndicate comprising top poli...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimra intercepts $10m drugs
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it intercepted dangerous drugs worth $10 million last year, after increasing its footprint at ports of entry. This comes as the tax collector, toget...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman nabbed for 3kg cocaine
A WOMAN from Emganwini suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for possessing about 3kg of high grade cocaine with an estimated street value of about $470 000.Sheron Tholiwe Tshuma (25) was arres...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prostitute arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine into Zimbabwe
A 32-YEAR-OLD suspected drug mule's bail application failed yesterday after she was remanded in custody on allegations that she tried to smuggle 3,8kg of cocaine into the country from Brazil.B...Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'SA drug mule a flight risk'
A self-proclaimed prostitute who was arrested at the Harare International Airport with 3,8 kilogrammes of cocaine worth $304 000 concealed in 11 shirts in her luggage was yesterday denied bail....Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now major cocaine market
There are growing fears that Zimbabwe has become a new hub for dangerous drugs, including cocaine - following the arrest last week of two alleged drug mules at Harare International Airport.The...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant South African drug mule appears in Zimbabwe court
A pregnant South African woman suspected of smuggling cocaine into Zimbabwe has appeared in court after ingested body packs were detected in her stomach.Isaura Masinga (40) appeared before Har...Published: 11 May 2017 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Is South Africa doing enough to combat human trafficking?
Johannesburg - Thousands of people are trafficked across continents every year by people smugglers and organised crime syndicates.Human trafficking has become a billion dollar industry and governments...Published: 04 May 2016 at 21:31hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Zimbabwean drug mule arrested in India
A 37-year-old woman from Zimbabwe was caught with 12kg of a chemical narcotic, suspected to be methaqualone, worth $200 000 by customs officers at the Mumbai international airport in the early hours o...Published: 20 May 2015 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Zimbabwean drug mule nabbed in India
A 24-year-old Zimbabwean woman was arrested at India's Indira Gandhi International Airport last week after she was found in possession of 12,5 kg of ephedrine drugs worth over $1,7 million. Ac...Published: 22 Apr 2015 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Kudakwashe Ruwende
Zim drug mule held in India
A ZIMBABWEAN woman was arrested Monday for allgedly trying to smuggle narcotics worth about $96,000 out of India.Dzvetero Mtegwe Mcvee, 34, and Mozambican her companion Macamo Paulo Azarias, 2...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean drug mule escapes Botswana jail sentence
Three convicted foreigners escaped jail sentence after being found with drugs suspected to be worth millions of Pula.The trio, a Zimbabwean and two South Africans, were fined P10,000 each by t...Published: 29 May 2013 at 03:23hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zim drug mules arrested in India
Two Zimbabwean women were arrested on Tuesday at the IGI airport here for allegedly smuggling narcotic drugs.Zimbabwean national Karimazonda was intercepted at the airport with about 25kg Meth...Published: 12 Dec 2012 at 04:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Men deny attempting to steal a corpse stashed with heroin
THE trial of two suspected drug pushers who allegedly tried to steal a corpse stashed with over a kilogramme of heroin worth US$112 000 opened yesterday at the Harare Magistrate Court with the p...Published: 03 Dec 2012 at 22:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Drug mule nabbed at the airport
A Gweru woman reportedly tried to smuggle 13kg of the banned appetite suppression drug ephedrine valued at US$39 000 into Zimbabwe.Gloria Chidakwa was arrested on November 17 at the Harare Int...Published: 23 Nov 2012 at 04:10hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
I am not a drug trafficker but a victim of the human-trafficking - SA drug mule tells her story
The South African woman, Nolubabalo Nobandla who was recently sentenced to 15 years in jail in a Thailand prison for trying to smuggle 600 grams of cocaine hidden in her dreadlocks in December ...Published: 22 Jun 2012 at 09:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
South African drug mule gets 15 years in Thailand prison
A South African woman who was in arrested at Bangkok's international airport in Thailand after police said they found 1.5kg of cocaine hidden in her dreadlocks in December 2011 has been sentenced to...Published: 18 Jun 2012 at 22:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim drug mule in Hong Kong court
A Zimbabwean woman - who was arrested in the Far East in March this year after being found in possession of hard drugs while en route to Thailand - appeared in a Hong Kong court yesterday. Foreign Af...Published: 25 May 2012 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South African drug mule arrested in Malawi
Johannesburg - A South African woman was arrested at Lilongwe International Airport, in Malawi, for allegedly trying to smuggle four kilograms of cocaine in a baby stroller earlier this week, a Johann...Published: 28 Jan 2012 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
SA's drug mule executed in China, ashes return home
The ashes of drug mule Janice Linden were finally delivered to her family on Wednesday - three weeks after she was executed in China.The ashes were in a plain brown cardboard box wrapped in ma...Published: 29 Dec 2011 at 05:21hrs | | by -
SA Dreadlocked drug trafficker to appear in court in 3 months
The suspected South African drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda will appear in court in three months' time, The Star newspaper reported on Monday.The family said on Sunday the South African embassy i...Published: 19 Dec 2011 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Moyo Roy
16 Zim women stuck in Asian jails, some likely to face death penalty if convicted
State media reports that SIXTEEN Zimbabwean women are stuck in Asian jails - 14 convicted of drug smuggling and two others awaiting the conclusion of their trial facing the death penalty if convicted...Published: 18 Dec 2011 at 19:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
South African Dreadlocked drug trafficker's family relying on media reports to stay informed
Grahamstown - Alleged drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda called her uncle, Mthetheli Mbewu, just after she was caught with drugs at Thailand's Bangkok airport on Monday."After she told me she had ...Published: 14 Dec 2011 at 18:43hrs | | by -
SA Dreadlocked drug trafficker not a Wits student
Johannesburg - A South African woman who was arrested in Thailand for hiding cocaine in her dreadlocks is not a student at Wits University, the institution said on Wednesday."Wits University w...Published: 14 Dec 2011 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
South African woman (23) caught trying to smuggle 1.5kg of cocaine in her dreadlocks
A South African woman was caught trying to smuggle 1.5 kilograms of cocaine in her dreadlocks on a flight to Bangkok, it was reported today.South African Nobanda Nolubabal...Published: 13 Dec 2011 at 12:43hrs | 40 | by Matthews Estell | indabandaba@byo24
SA drug mule executed in China
Cape Town - A South African woman has been executed i...Published: 12 Dec 2011 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by news24
South African MP calls on Zuma to stop Chinese execution
A South African national, Janice Bronwyn Linden convicted of drug smuggling in China, is due to be executed in that country tomorrow.The member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, ...Published: 11 Dec 2011 at 09:51hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zim drug mules face execution in Malaysia
TWO Zimbabwean women face the death penalty in Malaysia after they appeared in court in the capital Kuala Lumpur last week facing charges of trafficking 7kg of cocaine worth US$900 000.This c...Published: 03 Apr 2011 at 20:42hrs | 9 | by Byo24News
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