{"id":233094,"date":"2026-05-13T04:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-eight-held-as-police-seize-40kg-of-dagga-in-anti-drug-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:23:49","slug":"zimbabwe-eight-held-as-police-seize-40kg-of-dagga-in-anti-drug-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-eight-held-as-police-seize-40kg-of-dagga-in-anti-drug-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Eight Held As Police Seize 40kg of Dagga in Anti-Drug Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) says eight people have been arrested in separate anti-drug operations carried out in Harare and along the Bulawayo-Harare Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a statement, national police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said detectives from the CID Drugs and Narcotics unit in Harare acted on received information and arrested four suspects at a truck stop along Simon Mazorodze Road on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The suspects, identified as Christina Mazango (38), Chelusi Saidi (26), Priscilla Matros (32)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605120627.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>The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) says eight people have been arrested in separate anti-drug operations carried out in Harare and along the Bulawayo-Harare Road. In a statement, national police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said detectives from the CID Drugs and Narcotics unit in Harare acted on received information and arrested four suspects at a truck [&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":[54381,258,256,16017,19268,7297,257,8556,662,7568,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-233094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-40kg","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antidrug","tag-dagga","tag-held","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-police","tag-seize","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233094","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=233094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233094\/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=233094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}