Three charged in Masunga after 90 bags of dagga found at Mabuzu home
Botswana police arrested two men from Bulawayo and a Motswana woman after 90 bags of dagga were found hidden in a house in Mabuzu Ward, and all three appeared in the Masunga Magistrate’s Court for unlawful possession. Police said the weight of the consignment had not been established; the bags were of the size used for 5kg of mealie-meal.
Two men from Bulawayo and a woman from Botswana were arrested in Botswana, and
all three appeared before the Masunga Magistrate’s Court on a charge of unlawful
possession of dagga.[1]The two Zimbabwean suspects, aged 62 and 56, live in
Pumula South and Emganwini suburbs in Bulawayo.[1]The woman, a Motswana aged
44, is the third accused in the same case.[2]
Botswana Police Assistant Commissioner Witness Bosija said the two men were
arrested in Botswana on a Tuesday morning.[1]The dagga was in 90 bags of the
kind used for 5kg of mealie-meal, and the police said its weight had not
immediately been established.[1]Police suspect the two Zimbabweans smuggled
the dagga into Botswana through an illegal crossing point with the woman’s help.[1]The cannabis was allegedly found hidden in the woman’s house in Mabuzu
Ward, Botswana.[1]
The Zimbabwean reports, carried by the Bulawayo Chronicle, Herald, Bulawayo24
and ZimEye, name the three accused and the charge but report no court outcome.[3]
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The sources give no confirmed weight or value for the dagga; police said the weight had not immediately been established, so the 90 bags are described in the text and no cannabis weight is recorded.
The article says the men were arrested on a Tuesday morning while being published on 24 March 2017; the preceding Tuesday, 21 March 2017, is used as the incident date.
No court outcome, plea or bail decision after the Masunga Magistrate’s Court appearance was reported.
Mabuzu Ward is not located in the report; the district centre coordinates are those of Masunga, the court that heard the case.
Only the Zimbabwean and Zimbabwe-based accounts of this event were found; no Botswana police statement or Botswana outlet report was opened.
The text gives a weight ("5kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
Clifford Nkomo, 51, was arrested at a farm in Gantsi and charged with unlawful possession and unlawful cultivation after police reported about 500 kg of cannabis worth P250,000, plus about 1 kg in sachets. He was remanded to 27 April 2026.
Botswana police intercepted Namibian driver Mbaunguraije Kaitjirokere at the Mamuno border and seized about 100 kg of cannabis from his truck. He appeared in the Gantsi court on a trafficking charge, was remanded in custody and had not yet pleaded by his second appearance in early March 2026.
Police seized seven bags holding 79.1 kg of cannabis from four men stopped along the Trans Kalahari road near Lobatse on 26 October 2025. The four pleaded not guilty to unlawful possession of dagga, while two admitted overstaying and one admitted entering Botswana through an un-gazetted point.
Maun Magistrates Court sentenced South African truck driver Thapelo Skhosana, 29, to 10 years in jail for trafficking dagga after police found 29.4 kilograms in his truck at Makalamabedi gate in January 2022. He was given two days to pay a P20 000 fine in place of five years, failed to raise the money, and will serve the full decade, backdated to his arrest.
