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Government Targets Smuggled Goods With Door-to-Door Operation

3 months agoThu, 19 Dec 2024 07:54:16 GMT

Government Targets Smuggled Goods With Door-to-Door Operation

The Zimbabwean government has launched a door-to-door crackdown to confiscate smuggled goods flooding the country, especially during the festive season.

Those found in possession of smuggled items face imprisonment without the option for bail.

The operation will also target wholesalers, supermarkets, and tech shops, seizing smuggled products including food items, clothing, drugs, beverages, fertilizers, cement, vehicles, electrical gadgets, and solar panels.

Addressing journalists in Harare on Wednesday, Tafadzwa Muguti, the Permanent Secretary for Presidential Affairs in the Office of the President, announced that a taskforce has been deployed to all major border posts and key roads to prevent the entry of smuggled goods.

The taskforce comprises various government agencies, including the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), and the Consumer Protection Commission. Said Muguti (via The Herald):

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This December, we will have inter-governmental agencies stationed at our major border posts to ensure zero tolerance for smugglers. The task force will conduct door-to-door inspections of all goods in wholesale and retail shops.
I want to issue a stern warning to Diasporans returning for the holidays. We often see rising prices and increased black market trading as they come back.
Many choose not to declare their groceries and attempt to smuggle in illicit alcohol and other items, be aware that there will be no fines for violations at roadblocks; rather, those caught will be arrested on the spot. You risk spending Christmas behind bars if you engage in these activities.

Muguti said that the crackdown aims to protect the local industry from cheap, often counterfeit products that pose health risks to consumers.

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26 Comments

Tttttt · 3 months ago

gore riya makauya nemu ramba **** muka tangira kurukesheni gwendo guno motanga ku Glen Lorne, Highlands, Borrowdale muka gona ipapo mapedza ma sports

Zvidhoma 🤯👹 · 3 months ago

door to door they ain't serious umwe anofira muchishop chemunhu arohwa neZvidhoma

Ndururani · 3 months ago

Guys, its been days now kuno ku Manyame airbase magetsi dololo ko kwamuri zvirikowo here izvi

Rebelyus · 3 months ago

That operation is illegal. And what are the methods of identifying smuggled goods?? They should work on border security to eradicate the problem of smuggling.

Anonymous · 3 months ago

I still have the knobkerry I inherited from my great-grandfather. I can now use it to stop anyone from trespassing in my house yard.

Bvoricho Bvoricho · 3 months ago

Mutuvi wakudhla dhoti chairo iwe. Ndosaka magetsi akatiza uchihumana mwedzi wapera uyu, aaah!!!

dok25 · 3 months ago

Door to door is only possible with the poor people who have no security walls, fences, gates and well fed dogs, and they do not need a search warrant from the courts as the poor people's rights are compromised due to having no resources to engage lawyers

Jaison Ndlovu · 3 months ago

Mmmm vanhu vakaita maClub gore reset vanogona kurasikirwa nemukoho wavo apa

Patz · 3 months ago

A great opportunity for those deployed there. Its their time to build houses and buy cars before they retire from gvt service. Deployment to Beitbridge Border Post is like being seconded to UN peace keeping mission. Zveku protector local industry ndezvimwewo izvo. The local industrialists should and know how to protect itself without using the police or the army. They should dance to the market dynamics

😎 · 3 months ago

Mago ha pfuti dzirikupinda through these smuggled goods nema bhero iwaya

😎 · 3 months ago

Izvozvo you don't make announcements about the just flood ma blackboots nema gunners ka mwechete sesuva re vhote everywhere, Vanhu tave ku bhowa freedom now too much to an extent of not blurti diarrheal politics We are tire to reads stories that bring charging all time, do journalism that is not fuelling divisibility mhan

Jah🇿🇼Tsvarie-07 · 3 months ago

It doesn't make much sense that we fail to produce in our industry then get arrested for our goods that our relatives sent us from outside the country, i jus receive groceries from transporter so if he smuggled them or not is not my business coz we have Border officials paid monthly for being loyal to the government. Its jus like arresting those who bought goods from SAI MART who is said to be smuggling goods 🥱🥱🥱 ngaze ngazamula mmn this hurument wants us to be vagrants to the bone...

🕺🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♂️ · 3 months ago

"Muguti said that the crackdown aims to protect the local industry from cheap, often counterfeit products that pose health risks to consumers".... the biggest threat to zim's economy is the zig, inconsistent policies and a confused group that calls itself government

Trabablas the Greatest · 3 months ago

Gvt will bring sanity into the retail space by arresting all those who deal in contraband and are elbowing our corporate tax paying retail giants out of the retail space.kugeda kwemeno kwasvika kuma tuckshops kana usina declaration form wanyura iwe

Sir African · 3 months ago

Muguti is an ediot.There are no factories in Zimbabwe Almost products on the market are imported.Most shops will close and hasten the kneel of this country.Most shops will closedown next year.

Juju · 3 months ago

Sir, you are wrong. The factories are there but struggling to compete with the informals who smuggle goods to avoid paying duties or taxes. The informals don't pay rent either but squat on pavements, defecating in public places. Local factories can compete on a level playing field, with ease!

Sir Weaksnail 🐌 · 3 months ago

Gadzirisai chirikukonzeresa kuti vanhu vaite smuggling kwete zvese zvamurikuita izvi nxaaaa you are busy stitching up the butt hole to stop diarrhea it wont work

saint · 3 months ago

Tipei magetsi imbw* dzevanhu

citizen · 3 months ago

Tafadzwa wataitamba naye kuGlen Norah extension nana Coster naFani.Saka Political Admin paUZ ndidzo dzakusvitsa apa.Heyi vekudya ndevekudya zvokwadi.Isu tiri kuyaura tiri kuTeaching zvedu.Manje muchaita sei nokuti vacho vamuchapa basa rekuita man those points are corrupt as well.Brides shall make them filthy rich,vakatamba Xmas zvakanaka.

𝕮𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖉 𝕿𝖆𝖑𝖐 · 3 months ago

Door to door searches is just desperation by the evil 😈 sadist regime.

Mp · 3 months ago

Mai Auxiliary is no 1 I. bringing fake , expired goods

hoy · 3 months ago

are these guys ****s

Noob · 3 months ago

Why start door to door just tighten up the borders. Its like mopping whilst the tap is still on just close it and then mop. Deal with the source😂😂😂

PVC · 3 months ago

nice one