Hardrock just hired Zambian coach Kelvin Kaindu after he kept Dynamos alive in the top flight and helped them hold onto the Chibuku Super Cup. The newly promoted squad is loaded with cash and grabbed Kaindu for his third Zimbabwean gig in roughly 12 months after bouncing around between Highlanders and Dynamos. Munyaradzai Diya tagged along as the goalkeepers' coach, and Prince Matore plus Kelvin Maphosa filled out the rest of the technical staff.
Hardrock earned their promotion by winning the Zifa Northern Region Division, and they are clearly not messing around with their coaching setup since they stacked the bench with multiple assistants and specialist coaches.
Hope Masike threw down her first performance at Alliance Francaise de Harare after coming back from Kenya, and she basically turned the whole thing into a healing ritual with her mbira setup. She rolled with a three-piece band that eventually became four people, and the vibe was all about letting the traditional music take everyone wherever it needed to go. Masike apparently picked up the healing angle after attending the Third Feminist Republic Festival, where she heard brutal stories about women in conflict zones getting abused.
The show had her switching between singing, dancing, and cracking jokes while messing around with different sounds. She dropped Chaminuka Ndimambo over a hip-hop-style backing, which reminded everyone that...
Paul Enest Mzenge Zhou got nailed as the head guy of a cross-border robbery crew that tried hitting multiple targets in Harare and Kwekwe with his South African buddies Ndiafhi Makhado, Andrew Reabetore Masubelele, Emmanuel Makam, and two other gang members who are dead. The National Prosecuting Authority said Zhou and his team rolled around in a Gold Toyota Fortuner and a Black Toyota Surf planning heists, but cops were waiting when they showed up at some businessman's place in Mt Pleasant, and the whole thing fell apart.
Detectives tracked the gang to a guest house in Arcadia, where everything went sideways with a shootout. Police grabbed one guy after he got shot, and another dude opened fire near Morgan High School before getting...
The Biden administration shoved Zimbabwe into the worst tier of its AI chip export rules, which means the country gets zero access to fancy Nvidia chips like the H100 and A100 that everyone uses for serious AI work. A single H100 runs about 31 grand, and building something like xAI's Colossus setup would cost over 7 billion dollars, which is completely bonkers for a place where basic infrastructure money is tight.
Zimbabwe basically has to get creative with cheaper workarounds like parameter-efficient fine-tuning and decentralized training that spread AI tasks across regular consumer devices instead of needing massive GPU farms. The article argues that without homegrown AI infrastructure, Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa will stay...
Zimbabwe is cracking down on drivers who mess with their phones behind the wheel, and cops in Harare have been handing out $30 fines like candy. Deputy Minister Joshua Sacco and Harare Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Charles Tawengwa showed up at a workshop put together by the Traffic Safety Council and the telecom regulator to tell everyone that texting while driving is basically asking for trouble. Police are busting people even when they are stuck at red lights or sitting in traffic jams, saying that if the engine is on, touching your phone counts as breaking the law.
The government wants mobile carriers and transport groups to help spread the word about safer driving since thousands of people die every year from distracted...
The UK government dropped 283 million pounds to train builders, coders, and engineers, but businesspeople are saying it is basically pointless. Around 100 million is going to metro mayors and local leaders to expand construction courses at colleges with a goal of getting 60,000 extra construction workers ready, while the rest helps colleges handle more teenagers coming through by 2028. Ministers want this to support their plan for 1.5 million new homes, but critics like Michelle Lawson from Lawson Financial in Fareham are calling it empty promises that arrive way after the damage is done.
The real issue is not a lack of trained workers, according to people like Rohit Parmar-Mistry from Pattrn Data in Burton-on-Trent. He says major...
UK companies hit the brakes on hiring for the second straight month, as job postings tanked by over 14 percent between October and November, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. The drop is pretty wild considering retail and hospitality usually ramp up before the holidays, but businesses basically froze their hiring plans while waiting to see what the budget would bring and how the Employment Rights Bill would shake out. REC chief Neil Carberry said the budget turned out less brutal than expected, and the government dialed back some of the employment bill stuff, which might help things bounce back.
The overall economy shrank a bit, and unemployment is creeping up toward levels not seen since early 2021. Retail and...
A former government economist is calling out the UK Treasury for some wildly optimistic math around non-dom tax reforms. Chris Walker from ChamberlainWalker says the government is betting on nearly 16 billion pounds showing up over three years from wealthy people bringing overseas money back to Britain, but the whole plan looks like wishful thinking. The forecast assumes around 130 billion in foreign assets will get repatriated through something called the Temporary Repatriation Facility, yet tax advisers are apparently telling their clients to stay away from it.
The analysis points out that way more non-doms are probably leaving than officials expected, and the ones bailing out might be the richest ones with the most overseas wealth...
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett just made 59 lawyers into partners, which is their biggest promotion class ever. The New York firm bumped up way more people than last year, when only 44 got promoted, and nearly half of the new partners are women. Most of them work out of New York, but they have also added partners in Washington, DC, London, Houston, Palo Alto, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Luxembourg, and Beijing.
The private funds group got the most promotions with 13 people moving up, and capital markets came in second with nine new partners. Mergers and acquisitions saw seven promotions, which makes sense since that is what the firm is known for. They have been pretty active lately, hiring people from other firms and opening a...
