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While authorities’ battle growing criminal sophistication behind wildlife crime syndicates, local officials say the emergence of brazen illegal ivory sells also requires attention.
Hwange Football Club player Craven Banda has been arrested after he was allegedly found with eight raw elephant tusks.
Two men aged 40 and 42, are expected to appear before the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for illegal possession of and dealing in elephant tusks, specialist crime-fighting unit the Hawks said on Tuesday.
The trial of former Victoria Falls Mayor Sifiso Mpofu and his co-accused failed to kick-off last Wednesday as one of the prosecutors who are supposed to handle the matter was not available.
Former Victoria Falls Mayor Sifiso Mpofu and his co-accused who are facing charges of possessing 11 elephant tusks have been granted $500 bail coupled with stringent reporting conditions.
South African police have arrested a bus crew employed by Citiliner for smuggling 2kgs of ivory worth R1,6 million into that country through the Beitbridge Border Post.
Rangers at Marongora Field Station in Mashonaland West Province shot and killed a suspected Zambian national following heavy exchange of gunfire leading to the recovery of at least six elephant tusks in the Hurungwe Safari Area.