{"id":220092,"date":"2026-01-11T23:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fake-fertiliser-scam-costs-mazowe-farmer-34k\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:15:39","slug":"zimbabwe-fake-fertiliser-scam-costs-mazowe-farmer-34k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fake-fertiliser-scam-costs-mazowe-farmer-34k\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Fake Fertiliser Scam Costs Mazowe Farmer $34k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A Mazowe farmer was left counting his losses after being swindled out of US$34 000 by two men who sold him fake Compound D fertilizer last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Ishmael Takudzwa Mataya (35), Tapiwa Chipiti (29) appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo charged with fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">The matter was remanded to 21 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The complainant in this case is Stanley Mafumo (63) who is self-employed as a farmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The State represented by Lawrence Gangarahwe&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090076.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>A Mazowe farmer was left counting his losses after being swindled out of US$34 000 by two men who sold him fake Compound D fertilizer last year. Ishmael Takudzwa Mataya (35), Tapiwa Chipiti (29) appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo charged with fraud. The matter was remanded to 21 January. The complainant in this case [&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":[53386,258,256,11509,6891,4759,12989,11778,257,13731,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-220092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-34k","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-costs","tag-fake","tag-farmer","tag-fertiliser","tag-mazowe","tag-news","tag-scam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220092","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=220092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220092\/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=220092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}