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Police in Matabeleland South have recovered 61 stolen cattle worth about US$30 000 in Bulilima District and arrested three suspects, one of them a former teacher.

Eight truck drivers and two security guards employed by Sinohydro in Hwange have been fined for stealing fuel that they drained from the company’s trucks for sell.

Police in Bulawayo have arrested two suspected carjackers and recovered four vehicles.

The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID), which conducts driver training among other duties, has been taken over by criminal gangs that are fleecing the public and Government through pocketing various amounts for one to acquire a driver’s licence.

The trial of the former secretary in the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Development Francis Gudyanga again failed to start following special unit prosecutor Thabani Mpofu’s no show.