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Fuel smuggler arrested with 1 000 litres

In a coordinated crackdown on fuel smuggling, a joint operation by the Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit and the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has resulted in the seizure of over 1,000 litres of petrol suspected to have been illegally b…

Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 14:28hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter

Another Zimbabwean explosives smuggler arrested at South Africa border

South African border authorities have arrested a 48-year-old suspect for attempting to smuggle explosives worth at least R600,000 from Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge Port of Entry on Monday. The nationality of the suspect has not yet been…

Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 16:08hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean cigarette smuggler busted in SA

South African authorities have intercepted a 20-year-old migrant transporting smuggled cigarettes worth an estimated R160,000. The arrest was confirmed by Limpopo police spokesperson, Colonel Malasela Ledwaba. The provincial anti-smuggling…

Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 15:41hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt urged to criminalise enforced disappearances

GOVERNMENT has been challenged to domesticate the United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances.Harare signed the international statute in 2007, but is yet to domesticate it.Civil so…

Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean cigarette smuggler, SA police in shootout

A 28-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean was nabbed in Musina, South Africa, following a shootout with police  on Sunday after attempting to smuggle local cigarettes worth ZAR348 000 to the neighbouring country.The South African Police Services (Sap)…

Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa likely to feature in Al Jazeera exposÃ© episode two

AL JAZEERA finally dropped its explosive documentary exposing how hundreds of millions worth of gold was being smuggled out to Dubai by a well knit circle of high ranking officials who include Ambassador at Large Uebert Angel and the contr…

Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:50hrs | 2 | by AFP

Gold smuggler tied to Kenyan plunder is back - now in Zimbabwe

A gold smuggler implicated in a scandal that robbed Kenya of 10 percent of its GDP in the 1990s has moved his smuggling operation to Zimbabwe and Dubai, Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal.Kamlesh Pattni was involved in the…

Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:50hrs | 3 | by AFP

No evidence to convict '6.9kg gold smuggler' Henrietta Rushwaya?

National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) top official Tawanda Zvekare has made startling claims Zimbabwe's prosecuting arm of the judiciary does not have enough evidence to secure a conviction against Zimbabwe artisanal miners boss Henrietta R…

Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 20:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'Smuggler' Rushwaya wants gold possession de-criminalised

CONTROVERSIAL Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has made a shocking plea to the Zanu-PF government to repeal a piece of legislation which criminalises the possession of gold without a valid licence from the auth…

Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 20:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Stubborn smugglers dice with death on treacherous Limpopo

DECENT Mbedzi (42) sits uncomfortably as he frantically nails together some wooden boards to make a wooden raft, just metres away from Dulibadzimu Gorge, about five kilometres south of Beitbridge border.It is 2pm on a blazing Tuesday and M…

Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Smuggler granted $50 000 bail

LEADER of a smuggling syndicate, Anyway Chinyanga, yesterday appeared at Rusape Magistrates' Court facing charges of illegal possession of a firearm and smuggling of second-hand clothes, shoes and cellphones, among other goods.He appeared …

Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Smugglers declare groceries as fertilizer , three trucks busted

Security officials working with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) anti-smuggling unit in Beitbridge have intercepted three commercial trucks which were transporting an assortment of groceries which had been declared as fertilizer.The …

Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:06hrs | | by Staff reporter

Cigarette smuggler killer acquitted

ONE of the four cigarette smugglers who had been accused of forcing a member of a rival group to jump into the flooded Limpopo River resulting in him drowning, has been acquitted.Isheunesu Ndhlera was acquitted at the  close of the St…

Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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