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A BULAWAYO vendor has been arrested for allegedly possessing unregistered medicines and skin lightening creams she was reportedly selling at her vending stall at the corner of Herbert Chitepo Street and Leopold Takawira Avenue.
Sithabile Nxumalo (50) was not asked to plead when she appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Ms Gladmore Mushove yesterday.
She is being charged with two counts of contravening Section 29 (1) of the Medicines and Allied Substances Act, as read with sub sections 29 and 39 of the same Act.
Nxumalo, of C105 Njube was remanded out of custody on her cognisance to today.
For the State Mr Malvern Nzombe told the court that on Thursday last week, detectives from the Drugs Section received a tip-off that Nxumalo was in possession of unregistered medicines.
The detectives visited her vending stall to investigate and discovered an assortment of unregistered medicines and skin lightening creams namely carolite cream, bu-tone cream, extra clair cream, appetite tablets, complexion top cream, epiderm cream, princess cream, movate cream, betasol, lemonvate cream, diproson cream and dermo gel plus cream.
The creams and medicines were taken to the CID Drugs Section.
The detectives inquired with the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe and established that the medicines were actually prescription preparations. All the recovered property had a combined street value of $261.
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