{"id":28930,"date":"2020-10-15T21:13:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=28930"},"modified":"2020-10-15T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:13:16","slug":"bcc-launches-blitz-on-sand-poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/bcc-launches-blitz-on-sand-poachers","title":{"rendered":"BCC launches blitz on sand poachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC), working with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has embarked on an operation targeting illegal minerals and sand poachers in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s rangers have over the past years played a cat and mouse game with these poachers with some of them affecting the abstraction capacity of its supply dams after embark on their illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest council report, over the past couple of weeks the local authority has issued 125 tickets to the poachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two-week blitz is still ongoing, during the exercise seven trucks, two scotch carts and 16 wheelbarrows were confiscated. During the monthly patrols 125 tickets were issues for various offences and a sum of $227 561was realised and 10 tickets have not been cleared with a sum of $17 310.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of 175 truckloads of pit sand were recorded at the two pit sand sites and the sum of $51 902 was realised,\u201d reads the report.<\/p>\n<p>Relating to illegal mining activities, the local authority revealed that 59 illegal gold panners were<\/p>\n<p>arrested and handed over to the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoutine operations were conducted at upper Ncema and on the decommissioned uMzingwane dam. During these operations a total of 59 illegal gold panners were arrested and handed over to the ZRP Esigodini with their confiscated tools as an exhibit,\u201d reads the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC), working with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has embarked on an operation targeting illegal minerals and sand poachers in the city. 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