{"id":234394,"date":"2026-05-25T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trio-arrested-after-120000-kilogrammes-of-dagga-found-stashed-in-truck\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:50:23","slug":"zimbabwe-trio-arrested-after-120000-kilogrammes-of-dagga-found-stashed-in-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trio-arrested-after-120000-kilogrammes-of-dagga-found-stashed-in-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Trio Arrested After 120,000 Kilogrammes of Dagga Found Stashed in Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Police in Matebeleland South have arrested three men, including a foreign national, for possession of dagga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The contraband weighing 120,244 kilogrammes was found stashed in the back of the suspects&#8217; pick-up truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;The ZRP confirms the arrest of a foreign national Mthokozisi Patrick Hlophe (46), Tapiwa Dube (38) and Dalubuhle Sibanda (41) at 60 km peg along Beitbridge &#8211; Bulawayo road for drug&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605250294.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>Police in Matebeleland South have arrested three men, including a foreign national, for possession of dagga. The contraband weighing 120,244 kilogrammes was found stashed in the back of the suspects&#8217; pick-up truck. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident. &#8220;The ZRP confirms the arrest of a foreign national Mthokozisi Patrick [&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":[258,256,4304,19268,48620,257,254,54470,9775,7744,4686,421],"class_list":["post-234394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-dagga","tag-kilogrammes","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stashed","tag-trio","tag-truck","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234394","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=234394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234394\/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=234394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}