Police officers based out of Bulawayo are raising concerns about secretive Vuzu parties as students head into their school break, according to Inspector Nomalanga Msebele. The gatherings have gotten seriously out of hand with minors drinking heavily, doing hard drugs like crystal meth and sketchy codeine mixes, and getting into dangerous situations involving sexual exploitation and violence.
Msebele says organizers are setting these things up through social media to dodge detection, and older drug dealers are specifically targeting the events because young people are easier to manipulate. Cops have been finding unconscious teens at these parties, and some kids are showing up to school totally wrecked from what happened the night...
Zimbabwe's education ministry is going full scorched earth on schools that keep charging parents registration cash before kids even get accepted for Grade One and Form One spots. Director Taungana Ndoro said any public institution demanding payments between a hundred and two hundred bucks for enrollment is breaking the law, and disciplinary action is coming. Parents like Rudo Maphosa from Emganwini are getting squeezed with hidden charges disguised as application fees, and families are scared to complain because they think their kids will get blacklisted.
The government is basically telling schools to knock it off because legitimate development levies can only happen after students get admitted through proper committee approval from...
Harare got absolutely wrecked when late-month storms knocked over trees and flooded streets across multiple suburbs, leaving families homeless and roads trashed. City Council spokesperson Stanley Gama called the whole mess a natural disaster beyond their control, but environmental lawyers are saying the council should have been pruning dangerous trees before the weather went sideways.
Legal experts like Ruth Mupindu and Tafara Dongo pointed out that local authorities can still catch liability if they ignored known hazards, since disaster status does not automatically mean zero responsibility. Power is still out for some residents, and officials are warning that more incidents will keep happening unless inspection programs and climate...
A Bulawayo woman got hit with a fine after dumping scalding porridge on her husband during some domestic argument. Sylvia Ngulube from Entumbane has to pay 150 bucks or spend three months locked up if she doesn't cough up the cash before the new year starts. The whole thing went down when she grabbed a pot off the stove and threw the hot contents at Christopher Ndlovu's back and arm.
The guy ended up needing medical treatment for burns, and cops arrested her after he filed a report. She admitted guilt in court and got sentenced by the magistrate handling the case.
Zimbabwe's government is basically admitting it's broke and wants private companies to help fund a massive road safety upgrade after accidents keep eating nearly three percent of the country's economic output every year. Transport Ministry official Takura Vengesera told a conference in Harare that Cabinet already approved creating a Road Accident Fund to help crash victims, and they're desperately hunting for outside cash to fix busted infrastructure through public-private partnerships.
The compensation fund is apparently modeled after similar programs in other African countries, and conference host Tawanda Sisimayi pointed out that about 90 percent of Zimbabweans don't have medical insurance. Emergency services are a total mess right...
The African Development Bank dropped roughly nine million bucks into a fishing program that's apparently helping almost three million people across southern Africa grab better incomes and more food. ProFishBlue pushed over half a million tonnes of cross-border fish trade in four years while training about 250,000 folks in seven countries on everything from quality control to stopping illegal catches. Zimbabwe is one of the spots getting support.
The whole thing kicked off back in 2022, and governments plus private companies met up in Gaborone to celebrate how it's been going. Regional officials basically said they're grateful for the cash, and the program keeps building climate resilience while hooking up communities with better...
The Mutasa family and their village head just showed up at Chief Mutasa's court to settle a 40-year-old land beef that keeps getting messier. David and Cecilia Kanjanda are beefing with village head Misheck Nyazika over a tiny garden after the government moved their family onto his land back in the 80s, and they refuse to leave even though they got allocated a different property later on.
The real drama kicked off when David came home from the hospital to find his garden chopped up and handed to someone else. His wife went off claiming the village head steals her food and breaks into their house. The chief basically told them they're squatting on borrowed land that was never theirs to begin with, but he ordered Nyazika to at least let...
A Chimanimani woman dragged her half-brother to Chief Saurombe's court after accusing him of cursing her because her baby daddy never paid bride price for their four kids together. Chipo Chandakabarirwa from Tiya Village claims Elisha Mutoriyondo got mad when he found out she was pregnant again without any lobola being settled, and he apparently did some ritual with a knife that made her health tank. She says something feels like it's moving around in her stomach, and her leg is messed up as it got sliced.
Her partner, Jeremiah Murambwi, refuses to take her to healers and just calls her lazy when she complains about being sick. She also mentioned he threatens to make her pay thousands for raising her first kid from another relationship...
A 30-year-old woman's savings club in Mutasa is beefing hard with their treasurer's husband after he allegedly threatened them over missing funds. The group dragged Nelson Dzirutwe to Chief Mutasa's court, claiming he got violent and intimidating when they asked his wife, Evess, to return 400 dollars she supposedly took. Things got dark after their vice-chairperson randomly died, and the women are blaming a sketchy text Nelson sent warning them about mysterious consequences if they kept pressing for their money.
Nelson denied sending threats at first, but then backtracked when they showed receipts in court. Chief Mutasa shut him down hard, pointing out the club constitution clearly states it's women-only, and spouses don't...
