How Botswana finally nailed SADC poaching kingpin

Since 2012, the government of Botswana had been mounting a seemingly impractical process to extradite Moyo from Zimbabwe to Botswana to stand trial.

Moyo, 52, and others not before court are facing a single charge of being found in possession of a rhinoceros horn. The State alleges that Moyo and his accomplices were found in unlawful possession of rhinoceros horn without a licence or permit at the Francistown-Orapa junction on October 22, 2012. An urgent document written to the Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner General from one M. Matshiya, Zimbabwe’s Secretary for the Home Affairs ministry, shows that the Zimbabwe authorities sanctioned Moyo to be extradited from Zimbabwe to Botswana on December 4, 2017.