{"id":201676,"date":"2025-07-05T02:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-net-over-100kg-of-dagga-in-back-to-back-raids\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T02:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:04:57","slug":"zimbabwe-police-net-over-100kg-of-dagga-in-back-to-back-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-police-net-over-100kg-of-dagga-in-back-to-back-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Police Net Over 100kg of Dagga in Back-to-Back Raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Zimbabwe Republic Police has uncovered nearly 110 kilograms of dagga in two separate operations targeting a cross-border drug smuggling ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to national police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi, detectives from the CID Drugs and Narcotics Unit acted on a tip-off on July 1, 2025 and tracked a foreign-registered cross-border bus to a residential property along Arcturus Road in Highlands, Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;At the location, detectives observed the bus crew offloading groceries into a DAF&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040544.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Republic Police has uncovered nearly 110 kilograms of dagga in two separate operations targeting a cross-border drug smuggling ring. According to national police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi, detectives from the CID Drugs and Narcotics Unit acted on a tip-off on July 1, 2025 and tracked a foreign-registered cross-border bus to a residential property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[33828,258,256,28644,19268,20460,257,662,7886,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-100kg","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backtoback","tag-dagga","tag-net","tag-news","tag-police","tag-raids","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}