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Ex-Nigerian president dies at a clinic in London
Muhammadu Buhari, a former Nigerian military ruler who went on to become the nation's first opposition candidate to win a presidential election, has died. He was 82.Buhari died on Sunday after...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 21:12hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
SA Police seize R8 million worth of dagga bound for Zimbabwe
A 27-year-old man was arrested by the South African Police Services (SAPS) on Friday last week after being caught transporting nearly one tonne of dagga worth an estimated R8 million. The consignment,...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 09:05hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Drug smuggler walks away from police
A DRUG dealer intercepted at Beitbridge Border Post with dagga and prohibited cough syrups slipped away under the nose of dozens of security officials at Zimbabwe's most patrolled border post....Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:23hrs | 7 | 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
Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former gove...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by AP
Zimbabwean drug smuggler denied bail in SA
A 38-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean woman's bid for freedom has hit a brick wall after she was denied bail in South Africa following her arrest for allegedly smuggling drugs worth R2 million into the neighbourin...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police arrest female drug smuggler
...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 10:15hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Street drugs fake and very dangerous: Health minister
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo on Thursday told Senate that drugs being sold on the streets were very dangerous and, at times, people were duped into buying ash packaged as capsules under the pretext th...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
The White Man who sent fear down Mugabe's spine
Canadian mining company Falconbridge Inc. had a big problem in Zimbabwe during the Gukurahundi disturbances in the early 1980s.Its operations in war-torn Zimbabwe were in chaos. ZIPRA rebels o...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 09:08hrs | | by Globe and Mail
8 prisoners executed for drugs offences in Indonesia
Eight convicted drug smugglers have been executed by firing squad in Indonesia.The executions took place in Besi prison on the island of Nusakambangan early on Wednesday morning local time....Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by BBC Asia
Doom for Zimbabweans in South Africa
ZIMBABWEANS in South Africa will have to return home eventually following fears by the neighbouring country's Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba that their continued stay there will result in u...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA drug smuggler nabbed in Zimbabwe
A South African man was arrested at the Harare International Airport smuggling 15 kilogrammes of ephedrine medicine into Zimbabwe without a permit. Phala Cedric Dannyboy (43) of Alien Street ...Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 02:15hrs | 11 | by Court Reporter
Isolated Amazon tribe attempts to make contact with outsiders - Video
Members of an Indian tribe that has long lived in voluntary isolation in Peru's south-eastern Amazon have attempted to make contact with outsiders in a tense encounter that almost ended in violence. ...Published: 21 Aug 2013 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Iran: Five drug smugglers hanged
Tehran - Iran has hanged five people in prison who were convicted of drug trafficking, the justice department in the southern province of Kerman said in a report by Ilna news agency on Saturday....Published: 02 Feb 2013 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean drug smuggler escapes death in Hong Kong
A Zimbabwean woman convicted of smuggling hard drugs in Hong Kong was spared the death sentence after she was thrown behind bars for seven-and-a-half years in that country....Published: 24 Dec 2012 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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