Cardi B dodged another court battle after a judge tossed the security guard's request for a retrial over that 2018 Beverly Hills medical office incident. Los Angeles County Judge Ian Fusselman rejected Emani Ellis's claims that jurors got scared when Cardi dropped a pen on the ground and told some YouTuber named Donat Ricketts to back off outside the courthouse. The rapper was secretly pregnant at the time, and her legal team proved the jury intimidation angle was basically made up.
The original trial wrapped up with jurors spending just one hour deciding Cardi never touched Ellis, and the judge said outside drama had zero effect on their decision. Cardi went hard afterward, saying she would swear on her deathbed that she never laid...
Two senior military guys allegedly trashed over two hectares of maize at opposition politician Patrick Cheza's farm in Mvuma using a tractor while driving unmarked trucks. Stanford Ncube from Josiah Magama Tongogara Airbase and Midlands prison chief Commissioner Somemore Gate showed up with their crew and destroyed crops that were already sprouting. Cheza filed a police report and plans to sue both officers for wrecking his field.
The farm sits at the center of a dispute between Cheza and the Ministry of Lands, but court records show the government actually gave him the property. Cheza got a call from his worker about the destruction, drove out there, and caught Gate still hanging around while Ncube bolted when he spotted him coming...
Bulawayo officials want to flatten a massive 13-room house at 15 Pingstone Road in Kumalo after auditors discovered the property had changed hands illegally for almost 40 years without proper paperwork or approved building plans. Raphael Masuku complained when he noticed construction happening on what he thought was his land, and the city dug into records that showed at least four different people claiming ownership since Girlie Malunga bought the stand back in 1987, but died 10 months later.
Her husband, Joseph Bingo Malunga, never paid the full amount or developed the lot on time, and things got messy with sketchy transfers and missing files before a court gave it to Thabani Mguni's estate. Mguni's widow sold it to some guy named...
Chief Bere told cops at a Mashava anti-drug event they need to lock up dealers no matter how loaded they are, because rich people keep running the trade while broke kids take the fall. The traditional leader went off about wealthy suspects dodging consequences through money and connections, and he wants equal treatment under the law.
Minister Ezra Chadzamira basically said communities need to stop protecting dealers, and a university professor warned students that getting high tanks their futures permanently. Some youth rep pointed out that jobless young people turn to substances when they have nothing else going on, which makes unemployment a huge part of the problem.
A guy from Zimbabwe got locked up for over three years after pretending to be a licensed nurse and working at six different care homes across northeast England. Ashton Guramatunhu used someone else's credentials to register with an agency back in 2014, and he had zero actual nursing qualifications while treating vulnerable patients who needed legit medical care.
The scam fell apart when the real nurse got contacted about a fitness-to-practise hearing that had nothing to do with him, which triggered an investigation into the whole mess. Police said Guramatunhu risked people's lives just to make money, and he probably would have kept going if he hadn't gotten caught.
He admitted to fraud by false representation and got hit with a...
Eben Etzebeth got hit with a 12-match ban for gouging a Welsh player during the Springboks tour, and the Sharks decided to pull him from their Champions Cup roster to free up a spot for someone who can actually play. Head coach John Plumtree said the whole thing crushed the team since they lost one of their best locks and a major leader, plus two other second-row guys are injured until late December. Etzebeth feels terrible about the mess and knows how bad it hurts the club.
While he sits out, the veteran will help coach junior players and work with some senior squad members on random tasks to stay useful. The Sharks might add him back to the Champions Cup squad if they make the playoffs in April, but for the immediate future, they...
Layla Kolbe got emotional about moving back to Japan with Cheslin and their kids after finally settling down in South Africa and building friendships that made the place feel like home again. She posted about missing a family wedding and the holidays while dealing with jet lag at weird hours, but she keeps choosing faith over fear and leans on prayer to get through another season of constant relocation. Being married to a Springboks star means she handles school runs and bedtime chaos solo when he travels, then packs everything up again when contracts shift.
Fans flooded her comments with support and jokes about the kids acting wild on the flight, and some said they would miss seeing the family around. She acknowledges the...
A dude from Ruwa got slapped with five years behind bars after getting busted with barely any gold, and the whole thing has people arguing about how harsh Zimbabwe's mineral laws actually are. Tafadzwa Matsika was holding just 0.096 grams of the stuff without a license, which is worth maybe twelve bucks, but mining officials tracked his footprints from an illegal shaft straight to where he was staying and arrested him when he couldn't show proper paperwork.
The government says even tiny amounts threaten the economy and feed illegal mining operations, but there's apparently a massive backlog of tens of thousands of license applications sitting in bureaucratic limbo. Staff shortages and a lack of vehicles for ground checks mean people...
Rassie Erasmus locked down another four years coaching the Springboks through 2031, which takes him past the next World Cup happening in the United States. SA Rugby president Mark Alexander hyped up how the guy turned South Africa into back-to-back world champions in 2019 and 2023, plus grabbed consecutive Rugby Championship trophies while keeping the team ranked number one globally for three straight seasons.
Erasmus said the extension chat went smoothly because he can't picture himself coaching another country anyway, and Alexander thinks the long-term deal keeps everything stable for developing players and systems. The rest of the coaching staff announcements are coming later, but Erasmus already mentioned that the tough 2026...
