{"id":9543,"date":"2022-06-30T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:29:33","slug":"cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe","title":{"rendered":"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite intensive joint police operations to curb the vice.<\/b><\/p>\n

Recently the two countries formed a Zimbabwe-Botswana Bi-National Commission (BNC) to collaborate efforts to curb cattle rustling activities along the two nations’ common border.<\/p>\n

On Friday, media reports from Botswana stated that even though the Botswana Police Service (BPS) arrests suspected cattle rustlers through its Kgomo Khumo anti-stock theft operation, the country has continued to experience livestock thefts along its border.<\/p>\n

In February, the two nations held their third session of the BNC in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe where officials from Botswana raised concern over continued cross-border cattle rustling.<\/p>\n

Botswana’s Defence and Security ministry secretary, Botlhale Makgekgenene has also raised the concern with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner General Godwin Matanga.<\/p>\n

The concern was raised when Matanga recently paid a courtesy call on Botswana Defence and Security minister Kagiso Mmusi.<\/p>\n

Makgekgenene reportedly appealed to Botswana and Zimbabwean police to come up with strategies to effectively curb the problem.<\/p>\n

Matanga and his delegation were on a four-day visit to BPS to assess progress on the implementation of the BNC agreements.<\/p>\n

Matanga reportedly expressed gratitude for the working collaboration between the two police services, and assured his neighbours that Zimbabwe was committed to combating stock theft.<\/p>\n

Acting Police Commissioner for Botswana, Phemelo Ramakorwane said the increased number of base camps along the border have resulted in positive outcomes because stock theft cases had significantly decreased.<\/p>\n

Ramakorwane appreciated the continued good working relations existing between the two police services.<\/p>\n

President Emmerson Mnangagwa early this year also established an inter-ministerial committee to tackle cross-border cattle rustling along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border.<\/p>\n

The inter-ministerial committee is chaired by Zimbabwe Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage minister, Kazembe Kazembe.<\/p>\n

The issue of cross-border cattle rustling, whereby stolen cattle from mainly Botswana are smuggled into Zimbabwe, has been a major concern for both countries with the crime having escalated this year.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe and Botswana agreed that there was need to electronically tag cattle that graze along the borders, especially at Mlambaphele where the tagging programme was pioneered.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Botswana<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite intensive joint police operations to curb the vice. Recently the two countries formed a Zimbabwe-Botswana Bi-National Commission (BNC) to collaborate efforts to curb cattle rustling activities along the two nations’ common border. On Friday, media reports from Botswana […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,13,16],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-9543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-social","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"\nCattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite i ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-30T12:17:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-30T12:29:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"455\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-30T12:17:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-30T12:29:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe\"},\"wordCount\":368,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"Social\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe\",\"name\":\"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe - Botswana\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-30T12:17:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-30T12:29:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite i ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":455,\"caption\":\"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/\",\"name\":\"Botswana\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe - Botswana","description":"CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite i ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe","og_description":"CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite i ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe","og_site_name":"Botswana","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-06-30T12:17:11+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-30T12:29:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":455,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe","datePublished":"2022-06-30T12:17:11+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-30T12:29:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe"},"wordCount":368,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Botswana","Botswana"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","policy","Social","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe","name":"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe - Botswana","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg","datePublished":"2022-06-30T12:17:11+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-30T12:29:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite i ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_14-62bd971994554.jpg","width":640,"height":455,"caption":"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/cattle-rustling-riles-botswana-zimbabwe#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/","name":"Botswana","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}