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Matabeleland North’s rural craft traders receive training

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BY LWANDLE MTHUNZI

In an effort to capacitate art and craft traders, ZimTrade has engaged the services of a consultant from Netherlands to train Matabeleland North Province’s rural communities with technical skills to sharpen their businesses.

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Saskia Brigitte Patricia Smit, an expert in origination and design is in the country and visiting all districts in the province to meet small and medium sized businesses especially those onto basketry and weaving.

Smit is being accompanied by a team from ZimTrade, working with officials from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Entreprises Development.

ZimTrade established the Matabeleland North handicraft cluster in 2022 in line with provincial economic development plans.

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The cluster brings together five groups involved in art and craft specifically basket weaving across the province to facilitate capacity building for export business development.

“As part of the capacity building programme, local and international experts have been engaged by ZimTrade working in partnership with Dial Honour Consultancy to capacitate the producers on different aspects on international markets including desired quality standards, demand cycles, product usage and market access strategies, ” said ZimTrade in a letter to the Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Richard Moyo office.

“Against this background, ZimTrade would like to notify your office that a representative from our partners organization PUM Netherlands will be in the country to meet with Handicraft members in Nkayi, Lupane, Hwange, Binga and Tsholotsho districts for technical and business capacity building.”

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The visits started on Monday at Lupane Women’s Centre where the tour continues and the team arrived in Binga Art and Craft Centre today up to Thursday before going to Hwange on Friday.

They will then proceed to Nkayi next week on Monday before going to Ngamo Craft Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday, and will wind up with visits to Orphans Friend Craft Centre in Solusi area on Thursday and Friday next week.

 

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Hwange duo sentenced to 26 months for wildlife crimes

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BY WANDILE TSHUMA

Two Hwange men have been sentenced to 26 months imprisonment for setting 49 wire snares, including 48 class one snares, in Sinamatela Game Park, resulting in the killing of one impala and two female kudus, with a total value of US$6 000 worth of dried game meat.

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Lungisani Moyo (38) and Joel Nyathi (27), both from Madumabisa Village, were convicted of contravening the Trapping of Animal Control Act.

According to the National Prosecuting Authority, the state presented a case that the two unlawfully set the snares this month, resulting in the illegal killing of one impala and two female kudus.

The matter came to light after a joint patrol by police and Zim-Parks officers intercepted a man in the Lwendulu area carrying a suspicious black bag. Upon searching him, authorities recovered 12 bundles of dried game meat.

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Upon probe, the man led officers to Moyo’s residence, where further illegal game products were discovered.

Subsequent searches at both Moyo and Nyathi’s homes yielded a total of 22 bundles of dried game meat, kudu hooves, intestines, and other animal parts.

Police investigations confirmed the use of wire snares to hunt the animals within protected parkland.

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The total value of the poached wildlife is US$6 000.

Of the 26-month sentence, 10 months were suspended for five years, leaving the two to serve an effective 16 months imprisonment.

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Hwange man fined US$1 100 for illegal kudu meat sales

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A 62-year-old man from Hwange has been fined to pay US$1 100 for selling dried kudu meat without a permit.

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This was heard at the Hwange Regional Court when Samson Ncube appeared before a magistrate for selling meat without a license.

The state alleges that Ncube was found with 12kg of dried kudu meat valued at US$480, which he was selling without a permit.

He was arrested by CID Minerals Flora and Fauna and ZimParks during patrols in Lwendulu Village.

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The magistrate sentenced Ncube to pay a fine of US$1 100 by September 19, next month, or face 3 months in jail.

The recovered meat was forfeited.

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Goat thief caught red-handed in Tsholotsho

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A 30-year-old man from Tsholotsho, has been convicted of stock theft after killing a goat he stole at a farm.

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Praymore Sibanda was busted after police recovered the stolen goats carcass at his residence.

Sibanda’s downfall came when he appeared last week before the Tsholotsho Magistrates’ Court facing stock theft charges.

According to the State, on 11 August, Sibanda stole a male goat valued at ZAR 900 from Moses Ncube’s farm.

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The court heard that Sibanda’s reign of theft ended when Ncube discovered the theft and reported it to the police, leading to Sibanda’s arrest after police found the goat meat and the skin at his homestead.

In a bid to teach him a lesson, the magistrate sentenced Sibanda to four months imprisonment, wholly suspended on condition that he restitutes ZAR 900 to the victim.

 

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