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Dagga growers jailed

11 May 2012 Mashudu Netsianda
News: The two Zimbabwean men involved in a dagga-growing syndicate at Sipedza Village outside Beit Bridge were each sentenced to an effective one-and-a half years in jail on Monday.
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Wheelbarrow man walks 1000 km

26 April 2012 Mashudu Netsianda
News: A Zimbabwean man from Zhombe Village in Masvingo, suspected to be tormented by avenging spirits, has walked nearly 1 000km, while pushing a wheelbarrow from his rural home to Beit Bridge, saying he was running away from a “group of people” stalking him.
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Dagga growing syndicate busted

20 April 2012 Mashudu Netsianda
News: Zimbabwean police have busted a massive dagga-growing syndicate at Sipedza Village outside Beit Bridge. In the process, they arrested two suspects, one of them a village head, for allegedly cultivating more than 1 800 dagga plants.
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Easter border movement

13 April 2012 Mashudu Netsianda
News: Beit Bridge Border Post was heavily congested between Good Friday and Easter Monday as scores of travellers, mostly Zimbabweans working in South Africa, were travelling between the two countries.
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Drama at funeral wake

09 April 2012 Mashudu Netsianda
News: There was drama at a funeral wake at Tshapfutshe village outside Beit Bridge, when the relatives of a dead woman descended on their in-laws’ homestead and abducted their daughter’s body for burial at their rural home in neighbouring Save village.
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SA/ Zim to strengten trade relations

09 April 2012 Mashudu Netsianda
News: The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Elizabeth Thabethe, said the government was eager to help resuscitate Zimbabwe’s industries, following the recent signing of a bilateral trade agreement between the two countries.
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Cattle rustlers jailed

02 April 2012 Mashudu Netsianda
News: Three notorious cattle rustlers, who were operating around the Beit Bridge district and were arrested during a recent anti-stock theft operation, have now been jailed for periods ranging from 20 to 40 years.
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Mashudu Netsianda

Mashudu Netsianda is our correspondent in Beit Bridge, Zimbabwe. He joined us in 2006, writing both local and international stories. He had worked for several Zimbabwean publications, as well as the Times of Swaziland. Mashudu received his training at the School of Mass Communication in Harare.

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