Beitbridge Border Post officials Friday intercepted a consignment of lithium ore on three haulage trucks belonging to one Bernard Tafadzwa Mnangagwa.
The ore was being smuggled from Zimbabwe to South Africa and was declared as manganese, NewsDay reported.
Mines and Mineral Development ministry officials arrived at the border post on Friday morning to attend to the trucks, now under police and Zimbabwe National Army guard.
It is understood that the raw mineral was extracted from places near Sandawana in Mberengwa, and transported to Bulawayo, where it was kept near Khami Cafe close to Bulawayo’s Vehicle Inspection Department.
The mineral was reportedly stored there to facilitate smuggling.
This comes after the government banned exports of raw lithium last week in an effort to value-add Zimbabwe’s minerals and support local production and employment creation.
- Zimbabwe Bans Export Of Raw Lithium
- Police Intercept Trucks Loaded With Lithium Ore
- Two Men Arrested While Trying To Smuggle 40 Tonnes Of Lithium Ore To South Africa
The ban was effected through Statutory Instrument (SI) 213 of 2022 titled Base Mineral Export Control (Unbeneficiated Lithium Bearing Ores) Order, 2022.
Lithium is becoming increasingly important as the world shifts towards clean energy systems.
Zimbabwe has abundant deposits of lithium and, with rising global demand and firmer prices, it has become an attractive destination for investment in this resource.
It’s so painful, the elites are busy bleeding this country while the ordinary are suffering
Why is our gorvement elite and those polical connected not retiring from the syphoning practice of resources. U are taking the population for granted. The law is bundle to have no sight to such activities. This is a disgrace as the ban is not even a month in place. I hope we won’t have a similar situation like the diamond surge that happen in the bhuhera sometime.
Thus why mbalula was saying, they don’t encourage regime change in zim
ANC will never support the regime change in Zimbabwe no liberation movement will support the ousting of another because they have a lot in common he only spoke about sanctions he never mentioned anything to do with corruption
Stupid
It’s not about the ANC being a liberation movement, the ANC is getting the minerals for at a very cheap price then sell abroad. They benefit those ANC bandits when corrupt Zimbabweans are smuggling.
I once saed it that all the minerals in Zim are now benefiting Mnangagwa nd his kids ,mxm we wil never make it worst human being ever
Mnangagwa is the worst leader on earth
Eish ma1
Painful looting
Mbavha dzisingasungike
The fish rots from the head.
Simple to understand their modus operandi.
Ban official export by all registered mining firms.
And now it’s them alone who will export until the mineral gets exhausted.
And about those trucks,they will still cross into SA and noone will be arrested.They are rotten to the core and don’t care!
The fact that the truck has been intercepted is a sign that this fish is not rotten from the head. We must learn to tell the truth and encourage the government officials to carry on with the good work.
Eish pakaipa
Musanda intercepting for now but eventually the lithium will end up in South Africa and money deposited in Mnangagwa’s accounts. They are taking everything.
You will hear nothing more about this incident. Nothing.
For the first time i thought we were going on the right path but i can clearly see a few will benefit from this move – mother earth what have we done as Zimbabweans ?
The intercept of the truck is a sign that the country is at the right track. The problem is who was the receipt of the goods in South Africa? Criminals must be dealt with harshly and I believe stealing from the community is criminal. This BERNARD MNANGAGWA might not even be a MNANGAGWA, in South Africa we are seeing children of the daughters of political elite opting to use their mothers surname instead of their fathers.
Zvakaoma
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Then people blame Sanctions, oky arikusungwa rinhi sezvo akaba mabiro evamwe varimumajeri😭 vamwe moti arikushanda nesimba imika nyararai kana musingazive it’s so painful as Zimbabwenss we’re struggling to the point we run away from our own land bcz of hunger they come to the community n say protest for uplifting sanctions 😭😭😭 but they loot day n night 360days x2 for how long🇿🇼 haaa noo guys
No sanctions here, Munangagwa is stealing everything there..!
Foreign people took power. Foreigners grabbed power then they make sure that the citizens are pushed out of the country and make sure that nothing positive in the country. So the foreign people will make the citizens suffer.
The situation of Zimbabwe is the same as for DRC where the Rwandans were leading DRC and make the country unstable and push the citizens out as refugees in foreign lands. Our struggle is yet to start.
Munangagwa he is the one of the biggest thief in Zimbabwe, so it’s hard even to the police officer’s to control it, that’s he is always sending police officer’s to abuse the citizens it’s because the thief’s if they want to steal they make disorder in the country, then from there even they steal you can’t see, it’s very painful to our fellow Zimbabweans, let’s try to removes these Zanuz gorerino plz guyz, where is our children’s future if when things going like this in front of us, we should just look and keep quite..?
U help arrest munangagwa u became Zimbabwe best friend u both benefits
U help arrest munangagwa u became Zimbabwe best friend u both benefits ..this very easy ..I don’t know y countries like Zambia shouldn’t be involved
These Zambians are exploiting our country we open our eyes stand up and stop this before its too late
You caught him red handed, now what? Arrest him, oh, but then again the whole system is rigged. Zim is like a cigarette one end is burning, the other is in-between someone’s teeth.
Zimbabwe and South Africa are neighbours with corruption and crime. Zanupf and Anc are cousins in raping there respective countries. We loosing young intellectual with credibility abroad for better opportunities and living conditions because they disillusioned with corruption in government. Cyril his Son partner’s are shady characters. CR blesser enjoy dining with ur young wannabes in ur phala phala farm.
Don’t confuse the President cde Munangagwa and his family members with this smuggler Bernard Tafadzwa Munangagwa. They are not related at all so don’t put politics where it doesn’t deserve. Campaign logically not in a diased manner. The electorate is watching your foolishness
Who else has the power to smuggle trucks of minerals other than the first family. Who else has that power to export a banned mineral ???.
Zuni PF nonsense l am even failing to comment we’re not crs as Zimbabwean asibambanga that’s all
No freedom in our country scared of Police and soldiers because bona baya sutha legane zabo ilizwe lifile because of those idiot’s
Yes good
It is time to stand together for our rights and root out these greedy political figures from power otherwise they will always make sure that we keep worshiping them whilst they are looting and serving their lasting efforts to make us more poor than ever
The US must lift up the sanctions thats all, stop attacking the Zim $
What sanctions are you talking about??
God is faithful, He will answer our prayers nomatter what.
Thabo Mbeki said there are no crisis in Zimbabwe so that no one can interven,therefore they continue looting,they benefit from the situation.
Whom did you want to interven if there was crisis in Zimbabwe? By intervation what was supposed to be done? There was crisis in the US when Donald Trump was refusing to accept elections vidict. Why did they not call for other countries to interven?
The intercept of the truck is a sign that the country is at the right track. The problem is who was the receipt of the goods in South Africa? Criminals must be dealt with harshly and I believe stealing from the community is criminal. This BERNARD MNANGAGWA might not even be a MNANGAGWA, in South Africa we are seeing children of the daughters of political elite opting to use their mothers surname instead of their fathers.
This is just painful to hear . I still believe that God will make a way to resolve such. They will just block the those trucks for the public to see and witness but the end result no one will even know about it. Wait and see after 2 weeks or so. This will be just go silent and pple will forget about it. We need God more than ever before . When the doors are trying to open the other side …it closes that other side . Zimbabweans we need to pray harder. You see now SA n Zim only the top guys are benefitting a lot and us the lower classes we fighting each other and bona they will be like asazi khonale.
Zimbabwe we will keep suffering until we die we don’t have freedom to our own country I feel deepest ❤️ ZANU of you killing us alive now we are same like dog 🐶 to our own country really we are lost sandawana it’s my place we thought we are going to make better but it’s hard to say Zim it’s my country
It’s unfortunate because the so called liberation movements are betraying poor Africans, it’s up to us we have power to use our voting power wisely
The lithium ban is not a genuine ban at all.It is to enable the political elite to have the whole share of the mineral to themselves.After all they are the ones who have full access to those smuggling routes.Thise trucks found carrying lithium is just stage play.Was the owner of the trucks or lithium in those trucks arrested?We are not fools!