3 SA men arrested on Zimbabwean border
3 SA men arrested on Zimbabwean border
The men have reportedly been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle sable antelope across the border.
FILE. The men were apparently intercepted after their trucks carrying the animals got stuck in the mud near the Beitbridge Border Post. Picture: Wikicommons
Eyewitness News | 3 days ago
ZIMBABWE – Three South African men have reportedly been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle sable antelope across the border.
The men were apparently intercepted after their trucks carrying the animals got stuck in the mud near the Beitbridge Border.
The Sunday Mail says the three men, all in their 40’s, were trying to smuggle 29 sable out of Zimbabwe.
They’d reportedly entered through a small and legal crossing on the Zimbabwe/Botswana border, but were arrested near Beitbridge.
The paper says the animals were worth USD$348,000 and were being moved from a private game conservancy in South-Eastern Zimbabwe.
A National Parks official told the paper that the trio had a permit to move animals, but not to capture or export them.
The sable antelope is an antelope that inhabits wooded savannah in East Africa, south of Kenya, and in Southern Africa.
(Edited by Tamsin Wort)
