{"id":228481,"date":"2026-03-25T14:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-anti-drug-crackdown-nets-over-3000-arrests-in-three-months\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:01:03","slug":"zimbabwe-anti-drug-crackdown-nets-over-3000-arrests-in-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-anti-drug-crackdown-nets-over-3000-arrests-in-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Anti-Drug Crackdown Nets Over 3,000 Arrests in Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A total of 3,193 people have been arrested, 2,113 taken to court while 493 convicted in Zimbabwe&#8217;s ongoing crackdown against drug and substance abuse between December 9, 2025 and March 15, 2026, government has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Presenting the latest report on the national response to drug and substance abuse during a post cabinet media briefing, Tuesday, Information Minister Soda Zhemu said authorities intensified operations targeting drug supply networks across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">During the period under review,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603250213.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 total of 3,193 people have been arrested, 2,113 taken to court while 493 convicted in Zimbabwe&#8217;s ongoing crackdown against drug and substance abuse between December 9, 2025 and March 15, 2026, government has said. Presenting the latest report on the national response to drug and substance abuse during a post cabinet media briefing, Tuesday, [&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":[258,256,16017,7845,14409,7061,12006,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-228481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antidrug","tag-arrests","tag-crackdown","tag-months","tag-nets","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228481","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=228481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228481\/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=228481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}