A Zambian influencer who goes by One Boss Lady got hit with 18 months behind bars after getting arrested at the airport when she flew back from New York for her grandmother's funeral. Ethel Chisono Edwards basically got nailed under these new cyber laws for talking trash about President Hakainde Hichilema online, and she ended up pleading guilty to hate speech charges even though her lawyer tried playing the sympathy card about how she sponsors a girls' football team.
The whole thing is wild because the US embassy literally warned Americans about how sketchy these surveillance laws are, calling them intrusive and saying they let the government monitor basically everything. People are pointing out that Hichilema was against this exact...
A guy from Kwekwe is sitting in jail after prosecutors say he threw sulphuric acid on his wife's face when they got into it at home. Shakemore Manyepa, who's 30, showed up to court after the whole thing went down, and authorities are saying he came back drunk, started torching groceries he'd bought earlier, and things spiraled from there until he allegedly grabbed the corrosive liquid and attacked her.
The court isn't releasing info about how badly she got hurt, but Manyepa's staying locked up until his next hearing. The NPA put out a statement basically telling people to cut out the domestic violence and handle problems without going nuclear, which lines up with the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence thing happening...
Zimbabwe's economy is apparently hitting different this year, with projections showing 6.6% growth that beats most of Sub-Saharan Africa, and the World Bank just dropped its latest report saying the bounce back comes from better farming, metal production, and service sectors. Eneida Fernandes from the World Bank and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube both pointed out that things are stabilizing, but they stressed that keeping it together depends on actual policy consistency and fixing the business environment.
The report basically says inflation is cooling off, and mineral exports plus remittances are helping keep things balanced. However, debt is still a massive problem, and rural folks are getting hammered by weather issues and weak...
Zimbabwe officials doubled down on their disability inclusion push during an event at Danhiko Industrial Training College in Harare tied to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Kundayi Kamutseta from the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education said the government wants to expand access through tech and education while backing up local institutions that work with disabled students. Dr Deborah Tigere from Vision Ability Zimbabwe gave props to FAWEZI for pushing education access forward, but stressed that policies need more teeth.
The college principal, Flora Jaure, said her school stays locked in on vocational training that gives disabled students real-world skills. Speakers acknowledged progress while admitting gaps...
Geo-Pomona Holdings dropped off a bunch of new garbage trucks in Zimbabwe to help clean up Harare, which has been dealing with trash piling up everywhere. The company CEO, Delish Nguwaya, said the fresh equipment adds 25 compactors, 16 tippers, 10 skip loaders, and 5 street sweepers to their existing setup. President Emmerson Mnangagwa already signed off on earlier fleet additions earlier this year.
The capital has been struggling with service issues for a while, and residents have kept complaining about trash not getting picked up on schedule. Geo-Pomona claims the expanded fleet will speed up collection times across the city while they work on turning their main facility into a waste-to-energy operation.
Nine students in Harare got blocked from taking their ZIMSEC O-Level exam because the school decided their haircuts violated dress code rules. Education Minister Torerayi Moyo said the kids showed up for their Family and Religious Studies Paper 2 test but got turned away even after they fixed their hair and came back within half an hour. The exam board only gives a 15-minute window after the start time, and officials arrested both the headmaster and director for breaking education access rights.
Cabinet stepped in after hearing about the mess and told authorities to use a scoring system that averages out the top and bottom performers from that school to give the blocked students their grades. The arrested administrators are supposed to...
Zimbabwe's major Christian groups are pushing back against proposed abortion law changes that would let people terminate pregnancies up to 20 weeks without major restrictions. The religious coalition says the Medical Services Bill amendments would trash constitutional protections for fetuses and undermine traditional values by letting minors get abortions without telling parents or requiring spousal notification. Church leaders claim vague mental health provisions could enable late-term procedures and sex-selective terminations.
The country currently only allows abortion for rape, incest, severe fetal issues, or when the mother's life is at risk. Public health data shows that around 219 pregnancies get terminated daily despite tight...
Zimbabwe VP Constantino Chiwenga told an African corrections meeting in Harare that the country plans to roll out a revamped parole program next year to fix prison overcrowding and shift toward rehabilitation over punishment. The old setup barely covered anyone besides dying inmates, but the updated framework under a new prison law will have a State Parole Board running supervised releases based on risk assessments.
Chiwenga said the government wants correctional facilities that run on tech and treat people decently as the country shoots for middle-income status. The reforms come with major infrastructure upgrades to existing lockups and construction of brand-new ones. He pushed other African nations to team up through regional...
FC Platinum grabbed Joel Luphahla as their next manager after Norman Mapeza bounced from the Zvishavane club. The former Zimbabwe player just wrapped up his stint with Simba Bhora, where he took them to third place behind champions Scottland FC. Both sides agreed to split when his contract ran out at year's end.
Simba Bhora gave him props for rebuilding the roster after a bunch of veteran players left. Luphahla gets to jump right into preseason work as FC Platinum tries to get back on top after Mapeza's run that brought them two league trophies.
