Nando's is launching a drive-thru spot in Bulawayo's Woodlands area on Esigodini Road across from Fazak Home and Hyper, and marketing coordinator Kadziyanike Makomborero says it's all about giving customers a faster option during the holiday rush. The sit-down section stays the same for people who want the full vibe, but the new setup lets you grab your food and bounce without waiting around.
The drive-thru starts serving customers mid-month, and there's a bigger launch event planned for later with entertainment and surprise stuff happening. Makomborero mentioned the brand wants to level up the whole experience, especially when traffic picks up during travel season.
Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo is telling politicians and business types to keep their grubby hands off football clubs after businessman Wicknell Chivayo said he would bankroll Highlanders' coaching salary if they hired former Warriors striker Benjani Mwaruwari. Chivayo already pledged a million bucks to the club, but he made it clear the coaching money vanishes if they pick anyone else for the job.
Nkomo says sports should stay clean from political meddling and shady corporate cash, especially when corrupt money gets funneled into teams. He wants Zimbabwe to adopt financial fair play rules like European soccer has, arguing that dumping huge sums into handpicked clubs wrecks organic talent development and creates an unfair playing...
Zimbabwe's Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance is calling out the country's drunk-driving laws as totally behind the times, even though cops just got new breathalyzer equipment. SAAPA Zimbabwe coordinator Tungamirirai Zimonte told a regional media gathering that the current 0.08g blood-alcohol limit is way more lenient than what most countries use, and there's zero mention of stricter rules for bus and taxi drivers despite how much people rely on public transport.
The country logged over 52,000 road crashes with more than 2,000 deaths and 10,000 injuries, and Zimonte says just handing police breathalyzers without updating the actual policy framework misses the point entirely. He wants authorities to drop the limit to 0.05g...
Zimbabwe's anti-corruption body has wrapped up its probe into sketchy election procurement deals worth over $100 million, and they say there's nothing to see here. The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission found zero evidence tying flashy businessman Wicknell Chivayo or the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to any fraud involving contracts with South African firm Ren-Form CC, even though no open tender happened. Two of Chivayo's ex-business buddies, Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, tried claiming they got pushed out of deals and that invoices were inflated, but the watchdog says nobody can prove anything.
The whole thing fell apart because, apparently, no contracts exist linking anyone together. ZEC claims they never worked with Chivayo or the...
Windows has been logging every folder people click on through something called Shellbags, and the feature basically acts like a forensic diary that survives even after users delete files or unplug external drives. Microsoft built it to remember view preferences and window positions, but privacy nerds are freaking out because the data sticks around permanently and can reconstruct someone's entire browsing history on their machine.
A free tool from PrivaZer lets users check what got tracked and wipe the records clean if they want. The trade-off is that nuking Shellbags can make File Explorer act weird since it loses all those saved preferences, and investigators might get suspicious if they find a completely blank history during an audit.
The EU is backing off its hardcore ban on gas and diesel cars after Germany and Italy basically said the 2035 cutoff was unrealistic. European People's Party president Manfred Weber confirmed the combustion engine prohibition is getting scrapped, and manufacturers will just need to slash average fleet emissions by 90 percent instead of hitting absolute zero. Germany's chancellor pointed out that millions of gas-powered vehicles will still be cruising around globally for decades, and Italy's prime minister wants hybrids to stay legal.
Environmental groups are losing their minds over the policy retreat, saying it locks European drivers into expensive fossil fuel cars for way longer than necessary. Some automakers, like Volvo, are...
Leon just got bought back by co-founder John Vincent for somewhere between $30 million and $50 million, and the fast-food chain is already filing for administration to shut down money-losing locations and cut staff. Vincent grabbed the company from Asda after it changed hands back in 2021 for around $100 million, but hybrid work patterns and tax hikes have been destroying the business since the pandemic ended.
The chain is working with restructuring advisers to hammer out a deal with landlords while keeping all 71 restaurants open during the process. Vincent is blaming the government for taking roughly 36 cents of every dollar customers spend, and he wants regulators to ease up on the hospitality sector. Employees getting laid off will...
William Hill's parent company Evoke just announced it's shopping itself around after getting wrecked by debt and brutal tax hikes on online gambling. Morgan Stanley and Rothschild are handling the sale process, but the company warned there's no guarantee anybody will actually buy them. The group already said it's shutting down about 10 percent of betting shops next year to stop the financial bleeding.
Britain's recent Budget absolutely demolished its business model by cranking remote gaming duty from 21 percent to 40 percent and jacking online sports betting taxes from 15 percent to 25 percent. That's adding somewhere between $125 million and $135 million to their yearly tax bill once everything kicks in, and they already pulled their...
Britain is about to drop a massive compliance headache on companies that use gig workers and freelancers, and most business owners have no clue it's coming. The government wants to extend right-to-work verification rules to cover casual labor across industries like construction and food delivery, with penalties hitting £60,000 per unauthorized worker if companies mess up the paperwork.
The proposal is buried in a consultation that closed recently, and small businesses are getting blindsided since they typically lean hard on flexible staffing arrangements. One supplement brand founder who pulled in a million in revenue this year said the extra administrative burden would be rough since she operates with just freelancers backing her up...
