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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...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 15:41hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Cigarettes worth R100 000 seized in border operation
SOUTH African border security officials on Monday destroyed a wooden raft used by criminals to smuggle goods between Zimbabwe and the neighbouring country. The team also recovered smuggled cig...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
SAPS arrest 4 Zimbabwe men with R313,000 smuggled cigarettes
South African authorities have arrested four Zimbabweans aged between 25 and 45, in the Modjadjiskloof police area, for possession of suspected smuggled cigarettes worth R313 050 as they clamp down on...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 19:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Goods portering, a way of life in Beitbridge
RIVULTS of sweat run down her face, falling onto her dress as Mai Muku trudges the 472-metre length of the Beitbridge steel girder carrying an awkward-looking and heavy load.Apart from the bri...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:49hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco smuggling between Zimbabwe - SA now security threat
SOUTH Africa is drowning in illicit cigarette smuggling which has seen the neighbouring country losing at least R50 million (US$2.6 million) daily in potential revenue from well-coordinated syndicates...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SA cops arrested in R12m cigarettes smuggling case
SOUTH African police have arrested two of their own members who recently connived with a 43-year-old Zimbabwean to smuggle into South Africa cigarettes worth more than R12 million.The duo was ...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man caught with R12 million smuggled cigarettes in SA
A 43-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man has been arrested by the North West Provincial Anti-Corruption Investigating Unit (ACIU) in South Africa for allegedly trying to smuggle a contraband of cigarettes worth m...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
R30 million cigarettes smugglers bust
SOUTH Africa's crack police team, The Hawks, have arrested five suspects in connection with R30 million worth of cigarettes smuggled from Zimbabwe.Manuel Mphephu (44) Gibson Machaha (37) Moses...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean driver fined R1 million by South African court
A 28-year-old Zimbabwean man has been fined R1 million by a South African court for smuggling a contraband of cigarettes worth R1,7 million in a commercial truck last year.The accused, Pathisa...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
6 Zimbabweans nabbed over R6 million cigarettes contraband
SIX foreigners, believed to be Zimbabweans, have been arrested in South Africa after they were caught loading smuggled cigarettes worth R6 million from a gas tanker into two cargo trucks in the Limpop...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA police intercepts R1,5 million smuggled cigarettes
South African security officials have intercepted a contraband of cigarettes and a truck all worth R1,5 million believed to have been smuggled through the Beitbridge Border Post.Two immigrants...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 20:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man gets R20 000 bail for smuggling
The trial of a 52 year-old Zimbabwean man who was recently arrested with R30 million worth of smuggled cigarettes in South Africa has been set for January 17 next year at the Polokwane Magistrate Cour...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Smuggled cigarettes from Zimbabwe flood South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA's tax watchdog, the Tax Justice SA has lambasted authorities in the neighbouring country for failing to curb the smuggling of cigarettes and other counterfeit products, amid findings that...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 17:23hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for smuggling R30m cigarettes into SA
A 52-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man believed to be part of a well-orchestrated smuggling syndicate has been remanded in a South African prison following his arrest in possession of R30 million worth of smugg...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cigarette smugglers fined $12 000
THE 34 smugglers arrested while smuggling 76 cases of export quality Remmington Gold cigarettes into South Africa last week were each fined $12 000 (or three months) by Beitbridge resident magistrate ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
37 in court for attempting to smuggle cigarettes into SA
Thirty-seven suspects who were arrested while attempting to smuggle 76 cardboard crates of export quality Remmington Gold cigarettes out of the country into South Africa appeared before Beitbridge Res...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cigarette cartels in Zimbabwe are a tax threat in SA
A recently released report on powerful cartels in Zimbabwe has exposed how cigarette companies are illegally infiltrating the South African market, while dodging the local taxman at the same time....Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
R1 million Zimbabwe cigarettes haul in South Africa
THE SOUTH African Police Services (Saps) has intercepted close to R1 million worth of smuggled cigarettes of Zimbabwean origin stashed at a house in Louis Tritchardt where a 30-year-old woman was arre...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean women fake destitution in South Africa
LIVING in South Africa, which has become a comfortable hideout for many locals fleeing Zimbabwe's economic meltdown, has now become sour as Southern Africa's biggest economy has caught a cold....Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim man arrested for possession of R50k cigarettes
A Zimbabwean man was on Monday arrested in Durban, South Africa, after he tried to bribe a South African police officer who had seized smuggled cigarettes worth 50 000 rand from him. Tsepo Pas...Published: 28 Nov 2013 at 02:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA cops arrest Zimbabwean man over R1m cigarette smuggling
Police in South Africa's Limpopo province have arrested a Zimbabwean man for allegedly smuggling cigarettes worth R1 million.Police spokesperson for Vhembe District, Major Mashudu Malelo conf...Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 19:13hrs | 4 | by Sapa
Woman nabbed for smuggling R500 000 cigarettes
SOUTH African police in Thohoyandou on Tuesday arrested a 34-year-old Zimbabwean woman for allegedly smuggling cigarettes worth half a million rand into that country.Police spokesperson for Vh...Published: 26 Apr 2013 at 03:45hrs | | by Beitbridge Reporter
Zimbabwean man appears in SA court for cigarette smuggling
A Zimbabwean man, Shoriwa Admire, 34 and a South African man, Elliot Aifheli Mathavha, 32 of Tshikuwi village in Dzanani, appeared before the Dzanani Magistrate's Court on Friday in connection with c...Published: 29 Aug 2011 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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