Knowledge Maposa, 32, a Zimbabwe Republic Police officer stationed in Gwanda, was convicted of unlawful possession of dangerous drugs at the Gwanda Magistrates’ Court and fined US$300.[1] The court sentenced him to pay the US$300 fine or serve three months in prison in default of payment.[1] The Sunday Mail named the offence as unlawful possession of dangerous drugs and said the conviction came “last week”.[2]

On 29 December 2025, detectives in Gwanda received a tip-off that a police officer was keeping dangerous drugs in his room inside police premises.[1] The next day, officers searched Maposa’s room and recovered dagga with a street value of ZiG120, together with a J-pipe used for smoking crystal methamphetamine, and arrested him.[1] No weight was given for the dagga; the National Prosecuting Authority described it only by its street value.[3]

After the sentencing, the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe said it would keep working with police and the courts to arrest offenders and secure convictions.[1] Pindula News reproduced the same prosecuting authority account of the tip-off, the search, the ZiG120 value and the J-pipe.[3] Ziyah News reported that the National Prosecuting Authority issued its statement on the Monday after the sentence and said Maposa was arrested at the scene and later charged.[4] Ziyah News said the case followed a Beitbridge regional court’s remand of another Gwanda policeman accused of being found with large quantities of dagga.[4]