Kelsea Tadiwa Tafirenyika, 22, the second wife of Collins Mnangagwa, a son of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, was remanded in custody after appearing before a Harare magistrate on Wednesday 5 August 2026 on a charge of dealing in dangerous drugs.[1] Detectives from the CID Drugs and Narcotics unit raided her Greystone Park home in Harare the previous night, acting on information that she was selling pethidine there.[2] Court papers say officers found her in her bedroom counting ampoules and then recovered more drugs from drawers in the room.[2]

Police found five rolls of dagga in Tafirenyika’s vehicle during the raid, among pethidine and morphine that the State valued at US$204.[2] The State says officers seized 154 ampoules of pethidine, 50 ampoules of morphine sulphate and five rolls of dagga.[2] Prosecutors opposed her release, and the magistrate remanded her in custody to Thursday for a bail hearing.[2]

Investigating officer Detective Sergeant Neverd Charuma told the court that police had not yet arrested the trafficker who supplied her, so bail would jeopardise the investigation.[2] Police also argued that she was a flight risk because some of the pethidine found on her, Verpat brand, was made for sale in foreign markets.[2] The State argued that the seriousness of the offence and the likelihood of a lengthy custodial sentence raised the risk that she would abscond.[2]