{"id":209459,"date":"2025-10-10T19:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-garden-ganja-kingpin-nabbed-indian-hemps-farm-foiled\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:35:01","slug":"zimbabwe-garden-ganja-kingpin-nabbed-indian-hemps-farm-foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-garden-ganja-kingpin-nabbed-indian-hemps-farm-foiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Garden Ganja Kingpin Nabbed &#8211; Indian Hemps Farm Foiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">B \u2014 A plumtree man has been arrested after police discovered a thriving dagga garden at his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirmed that Melusi Mapolisa of Rangemore Sewage Ponds was nabbed &#8220;for cultivating and selling dagga.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">In a statement, the police said: &#8220;The suspect had planted Indian Hemps in his garden and was processing it for sale to the public.&#8221; Officers uprooted several plants during the raid, which formed part of the ongoing crackdown on drug and substance abuse across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100288.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>B \u2014 A plumtree man has been arrested after police discovered a thriving dagga garden at his home. The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirmed that Melusi Mapolisa of Rangemore Sewage Ponds was nabbed &#8220;for cultivating and selling dagga.&#8221; In a statement, the police said: &#8220;The suspect had planted Indian Hemps in his garden and was processing [&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":[258,256,10402,14111,46151,6602,52539,267,17965,9334,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-209459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-farm","tag-foiled","tag-ganja","tag-garden","tag-hemps","tag-indian","tag-kingpin","tag-nabbed","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209459","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=209459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209459\/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=209459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}