{"id":230576,"date":"2026-04-17T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwean-man-arrested-in-botswana-over-large-scale-cannabis-farm\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:05:07","slug":"zimbabwean-man-arrested-in-botswana-over-large-scale-cannabis-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwean-man-arrested-in-botswana-over-large-scale-cannabis-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean Man Arrested in Botswana Over Large-Scale Cannabis Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">A 51-year-old Zimbabwean man, Clifford Nkomo, has been arrested in Botswana after he was allegedly found operating a large-scale cannabis plantation at a farm in the Gantsi area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Acting on a tip-off, Botswana Police searched the farm and reportedly uncovered an estimated 500kg of dagga, valued at P250,000 (approximately US$18,600), leading to Nkomo&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nkomo appeared before the Gantsi Magistrates Court on Monday, facing two counts of unlawful possession of illicit drugs and unlawful&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170271.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 51-year-old Zimbabwean man, Clifford Nkomo, has been arrested in Botswana after he was allegedly found operating a large-scale cannabis plantation at a farm in the Gantsi area. Acting on a tip-off, Botswana Police searched the farm and reportedly uncovered an estimated 500kg of dagga, valued at P250,000 (approximately US$18,600), leading to Nkomo&#8217;s arrest. Nkomo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4304,4718,2462,9862,10402,16438,6867,257,254,325],"class_list":["post-230576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cannabis","tag-farm","tag-largescale","tag-man","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwean"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230576","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=230576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}