{"id":229815,"date":"2026-04-08T02:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-taxi-driver-arrested-after-six-undocumented-children-found-at-border\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:31:02","slug":"zimbabwe-taxi-driver-arrested-after-six-undocumented-children-found-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-taxi-driver-arrested-after-six-undocumented-children-found-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Taxi Driver Arrested After Six Undocumented Children Found At Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">South African authorities have arrested a taxi driver after six children were discovered hidden inside his vehicle at the Beitbridge Border Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The interception took place on Monday according to Michael Masiapato, commissioner of the Border Management Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">In an interview with SABC, Masiapato said the children were found without identification documents or adult supervision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">&#8220;These six children were actually stuffed in a taxi,&#8221; he said.<\/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> |&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070463.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>South African authorities have arrested a taxi driver after six children were discovered hidden inside his vehicle at the Beitbridge Border Post. The interception took place on Monday according to Michael Masiapato, commissioner of the Border Management Authority. In an interview with SABC, Masiapato said the children were found without identification documents or adult supervision. [&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":[258,256,4304,1900,7371,7768,257,254,8822,11379,4686,421],"class_list":["post-229815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-border","tag-children","tag-driver","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taxi","tag-undocumented","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229815","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=229815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229815\/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=229815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}