By A Correspondent- Home Affairs Minister, Kazembe Kazembe has embarrassingly responded to the case in which Zimbabwean gold smuggler, Tashinga Nyasha Masinire, who by South African police at OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, for possessing 23 prices of gold worth R11m (US$783 000) after managing to pass through the security checkpoints in Zimbabwe.

Kazembe told the state media that the local police were investigating the cases to establish how Masinire managed to smuggle the gold to South Africa.

Masinire appeared in court early this week and was granted R100 000 bail by Kempton Park Regional Court in Joburg.

He was remanded out to 1 July 2021, with stringent bail conditions, ordered not to leave SA until the case is concluded and reporting to police 3 times a week.