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Soldiers heighten patrols along South Africa-Zimbabwe border
The South African Defence Forces (SADF) have ramped up security measures along the Malaladrift area, which borders Zimbabwe, as part of a heightened effort to curb cross-border smuggling and prevent i...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:07hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Harare man in court over 2021 murder
A 27-year-old man from Harare made a court appearance on Monday regarding a murder case from 2021.Elton Pardon was remanded in custody until June 4 by Magistrate Dennis Mangosi.Accordi...Published: 22 May 2024 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's digital borders to go online in first quarter
ZIMBABWE will start the full implementation of the digitalised border concept this first quarter with a target of transforming all ports of entry into electronic gates by the end of the year.O...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
to have unmanned border posts by next year?
Zimbabwe is set to become the first country apart from Dubai to have an unmanned border post by the end of next year, which will see travellers entering and exiting the country using their e-passports...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police smoke out robbers from Beitbridge hideout
South African police have removed suspected robbers from Zimbabwe who were hiding under the New Limpopo Bridge in Beitbridge.The gang of men, believed to be targeting unsuspecting border jumpe...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tout stabbed to death
A Beitbridge man stabbed to death a cross-border tout notoriously known as amagumaguma for demanding money to facilitate the passage of four border jumpers.Amagumaguma are known for viol...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills colleague over R200
A suspected facilitator for border jumpers using Beitbridge on Wednesday appeared in court for allegedly fatally stabbing his colleague who wanted more money to help four Zimbabweans illegally cross i...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe border jumpers feared dead in road accident in Botswana
AN unconfirmed number of Zimbabwean nationals, including children, is feared dead after a Nissan Elgrand transporting illegal immigrants overturned near Franscistown Saturday.According to repo...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makeshift border footbridge demolished
Another makeshift bridge that was being used by smugglers and border jumpers to cross into Zimbabwe and South Africa, has been destroyed by the National Security Task Force (NTF) to curb illegal activ...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop pockets R500 bribe from buses for 15 months
A Beitbridge man has been arrested for masquerading as a security officer for one year and three months, collecting bribes ranging from R300 to R500 from buses in the border town.Gabriel Chire...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Border jumping, smuggling between Zimbabwe, SA persist
ILLEGAL travel between Zimbabwe and South Africa has persisted, despite joint efforts to thwart the practice by both countries, it has emerged.The two governments recently launched a joint ope...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans jailed 32 years for Limpopo armed robberies
Three Beitbridge men from Makaphile village, who are part of a syndicate that has been robbing border jumpers, smugglers, and ordinary motorists in Beitbridge East, have each been imprisoned for an ef...Published: 05 May 2022 at 18:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds arrested trying to illegally cross Beitbridge Border Post into South Africa
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs officials together with police and soldiers have arrested hundreds of undocumented foreign nationals at the Beitbridge Border Post at Musina in Limpopo.There has be...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
SA, Zimbabwe round up border jumpers, smugglers
Zimbabwe and South Africa border officials on Friday conducted a joint operation to clean up the border area of smugglers and irregular migrants.Scores of people were arrested going either sid...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe land borders yet to reopen'
GOVERNMENT has not yet put in place the "necessary administrative instruments" for the reopening of land borders almost three weeks after Cabinet gave the greenlight for resumption of normal business ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Reopening of borders will reduce illegal immigration, says Kazembe
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday said the reopening of the country's borders would reduce illegal immigration to South Africa at a time when Pretoria is struggling to contain the influx...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans risk police, crocodiles in desperate bid to reach SA
A BUSHY pathway leads to the crossing points along the Limpopo River that are the most treacherous part of the journey for Zimbabweans seeking a better life in neighbouring South Africa.The ri...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 18:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
5 Zimbabweans jailed for illegal entry into Botswana
FIVE Zimbabwean border jumpers accused of illegally panning for gold in Francistown, Botswana, have been acquitted of the charge due to lack of evidence.However, the court slapped them with a ...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Is it too late for Mnangagwa to reverse course?
All reasonable men know that the people of the Rainbird are the "wisest" among the Bantu. I was made aware, quite recently that they also have a weird sense of humour. When a bad character meets his f...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Kenneth Mufuka
90 000 Zimbabwean border jumpers arrested in SA, deported
OUR warnings to South Africa about Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis were ignored.So say Zimbabwe labour unions, civic society groups and human rights activists.And now this has...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 17:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC blames Mnangagwa for Beitbridge chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is to blame for the ongoing crisis at Beitbridge border post as many Zimbabweans are illegally leaving the country to South Africa to escape from his mala...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Motsoaledi says over 70% women seeking maternity services in Musina are Zimbabweans
SOUTH African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has claimed that over 70% women seeking maternity services in Musina, in the neighbouring country, are Zimbabweans, a development that exposes the ...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
3 border jumpers drown in Limpopo River
Three border jumpers believed to be Zimbabwean recently drowned in Limpopo River while attempting to cross into South Africa.Zimbabwe and South African police have so far retrieved the body of...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 19:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA border tiff calls for urgent introspection
THE ongoing tiff between Zimbabwe and South Africa over border jumpers from this side of the Limpopo River does not only make sad reading, but demonstrates the gravity of the economic mess that the ci...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA at war over border jumpers
ZIMBABWE and South Africa are at war over border jumpers, with the neighbouring country's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi accusing local security forces of taking bribes to let undocumented imm...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: SA govt sets up massive roadblocks, catches undocumented Zimbabweans
The South African Department of Home Affairs, SAPS and SADF have reportedly set up a massive roadblock between Hammanskraal and Kranshop in preparation for mass deportation of undocumented Zimbab...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 16:44hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Police destroy 23 shacks used by border jumpers
POLICE and other security forces in Beitbridge dented the operations of a syndicate that facilitates border jumping when they destroyed shacks that are used as halfway houses for people who illegal cr...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs raise Covid-19 alarm
CHIEFS have raised alarm over Zimbabweans sneaking into communities from neighbouring countries where they are based amid strong suspicions that some of them are border jumpers who are evading Covid-1...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Blitz nets hundreds of border jumpers in 1 day
POLICE Sunday arrested 427 people for various cross border crime violations under the operation "no to cross-border crimes".In a statement, National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner ...Published: 15 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
9 DRC border jumpers nabbed
Nine Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) nationals who, last week, slipped into the country illegally but were arrested by police, appeared in court last Friday.Chinhoyi magistrate Ms Tamari Ch...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 18:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge police impound smuggling vehicles
POLICE have impounded buses that were allegedly involved in smuggling at Beitbridge Border Post following a tip-off.In a statement yesterday, police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Ny...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border bus drivers protest against 'corrupt' traffic cops
BUS crews carrying voluntary returnees from South Africa yesterday abandoned their vehicles in Beitbridge in protest over alleged corruption by security officers who were reportedly demanding bribes o...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
22 motorists arrested over LED light bars
Police have arrested 22 motorists for fitting their vehicles with dangerous LED light bars while another 194 border jumpers have been arrested.National police spokesperson Assistant Commission...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African soldiers destroys makeshift Limpopo River bridge
South African security agents had to shoot at crocodiles on Thursday afternoon that wanted to attack them as they destroyed a makeshift bridge built by smugglers and border jumpers along the Limpopo R...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean driver brutally assaulted by SA traffic cops over bribe
A Zimbabwean cross-border bus driver was on Thursday last week allegedly brutally assaulted by South African traffic police in the Hammanskraal area after refusing to pay R2000 after being accused of ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Smugglers build wooden bridge across Limpopo
Daring smugglers have built a wooden bridge across the Limpopo River in Beitbridge which they use to smuggle goods and border jumpers between Zimbabwe and South Africa.Located upstream of the ...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
80 border jumpers arrested daily
ABOUT 80 border jumpers are arrested daily at Beitbridge Border Post as the Department of Immigration working with other border agencies is tightening screws to minimise cases of illegal migration bet...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Immigration tightens vetting at border post
The Department of Immigration, working with other border agencies at Beitbridge Border Post, is tightening vetting of travellers to curb illegal migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa. ...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drug dealer in court for murder
A SUSPECTED Ruwa drug dealer, who is also involved in the transport business, appeared in court yesterday facing allegations of fatally assaulting at his house and in a car a suspected thief whom he w...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Broad daylight smuggling
GOVERNMENT continues to lose millions of dollars in potential revenue as unrelenting smugglers and border jumpers continue to defy Covid-19 lockdown regulations by escalating their illegal activities ...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
81 people escape from covid-19 isolation centre
A total of 81 people, among them 29 who were Covid-19 positive, escaped from the Beitbridge Quarantine, Isolation and Transit centre last week under unclear circumstances.The group included 71...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
IOM rescues stranded illegal migrants
ABOUT 100 Malawians stranded in Beitbridge were recently rescued by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) which facilitated their safe return to their country.Zimbabwe has for yea...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA police recover R176,00 smuggled goods from Zimbabwe
South African police have intercepted a Zimbabwean bus transporting nine border jumpers and an assortment of smuggled goods worth R175 800 as they clamp down on smuggling.The Johannesburg-boun...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police probe cross border bus firm
Police have launched investigations into the circumstances that saw a Sables bus passing through all police checkpoints from Beitbridge to Marondera before it was impounded.The concern is that...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo rolls out jabs for all adults
BULAWAYO Province is today expected to start mass vaccination of all adults. The jabs will be accessed at all council clinics and hospitals across the city as the country received two million Sinovac ...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
30 000 up for smuggling
OVER 30 000 people have been arrested in the past three weeks for smuggling goods into the country, as well as border jumping, police said yesterday.The smuggling of goods, including luxury ve...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 man armed robbers on the loose
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a seven-man gun-brandishing gang who pounced on two vehicles that were transporting smugglers and got away with R23 000 and US$1000 as well as groceries worth about ...Published: 31 May 2021 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers prey on smugglers
ARMED robbers have wreaked havoc in Beitbridge's HaGoda, Mahuhushe and Lutumba areas where more than a dozen incidents, including carjacking, have been reported by cross-border jumpers in the past few...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers in gunfight with cops
An armed robber who is alleged to be part of a gang that has been terrorising motorists along the Beitbridge-Masvingo highway and smugglers and border jumpers using the Limpopo River, was this morning...Published: 28 May 2021 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree police intercept smuggled goods
PLUMTREE police last week intercepted two South African registered vehicles in Plumtree, Matabeleland South that were laden with smuggled goods.The goods were then confiscated by the Zimbabwe ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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