{"id":11885,"date":"2013-11-21T19:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2013-11-21T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:29:43","slug":"two-zimbabweans-smuggle-explosives-into-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11885","title":{"rendered":"Three Zimbabweans smuggle explosives into South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11887\" alt=\"explosives\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosives-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosives-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosives.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A man arrested for illegal possession of explosives appeared in the Musina Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday, Limpopo police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colonel Ronel Otto said Nkosinathi Ndlovu was arrested in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A Zimbabwean man travelling in a taxi from Zimbabwe to South Africa was arrested at the Beit Bridge border post in the early hours of this morning [Thursday] while attempting to smuggle explosives into the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the minibus taxi was stopped for a routine search of all passengers and a sniffer dog reacted positively to an item of luggage. A search revealed 30 pieces of explosives, without detonators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was postponed to November 28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a similar case on Wednesday, a Zimbabwean man, Zikhala Busane, appeared in the Musina Magistrate&#8217;s Court after police found 13 blasting cartridges and 13 connector cap fuses in the overheard luggage compartment of a bus entering the country from Zimbabwe. Police had stopped the bus for a routine search.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Initially, no passenger took responsibility of the explosives but the police&#8217;s investigative prowess linked Zikhala Busane to the illegal explosive devices,&#8221; said Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter was postponed to November 27.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Zimbabwean woman Elita Sibanda, 23, was expected to appear in the same court on Friday for a similar offence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mulaudzi said Sibanda was found in possession of 26 plastic cartridges and 100 detonators while on a bus from Zimbabwe to South Africa last month. She faces charges of unauthorised supply or possession of explosives or incendiary devices. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man arrested for illegal possession of explosives appeared in the Musina Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday, Limpopo police said. Colonel Ronel Otto said Nkosinathi Ndlovu was arrested in the early hours of Thursday. &#8220;A Zimbabwean man travelling in a taxi from Zimbabwe to South Africa was arrested at the Beit Bridge border post in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three Zimbabweans smuggle explosives into South Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7522,7519,7520,7521,1503],"class_list":["post-11885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-elita-sibanda","tag-explosives","tag-minibus-taxi","tag-zikhala-busane","tag-zimbabweans"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/explosives.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11889,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions\/11889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}