Zimbabwe's weather service is telling everyone to brace for more storms after the weekend dumped heavy rain across multiple provinces, with Chipinge getting slammed by 97 millimeters. Mutema and Bwerudza also caught decent amounts while most other spots recorded under 20 millimeters, but forecasters are warning about lightning strikes and hail hitting scattered areas through the start of the week.
Mashonaland East and northern Manicaland should expect serious downpours and possible hail, while most other regions will see partly cloudy mornings turning into warm afternoons with thunderstorms popping up randomly. The met department wants people to stay inside for at least half an hour after hearing the last thunder rumble, avoid open...
A Chitungwiza private school just dropped new buses and smart boards while doubling down on tech integration to match the government's Education 5.0 push. Pathway Group says it wants students ready for global competition, and the acting senior school head confirmed they are backing up national curriculum policies while chasing international standards at the same time.
The institution hands out awards for academics, plus sports, drama, music, and public speaking, because they have built a massive athletics complex and want well-rounded kids. Junior school leadership bragged about hitting 100 percent pass rates on Grade Seven exams since 2015, and they are leaning hard into AI tools with the interactive boards for research projects that...
Police are looking into two separate killings after a 57-year-old guy got beaten to death by two men who thought he stole their donkeys, and a 13-year-old kid died after getting into a fight with another teenager over snacks. The donkey incident went down at Chimera Village in Mubaira when the suspects apparently took turns hitting Fred Chimera with their hands, a whip, and wooden logs. One attacker got arrested, but the other one is still missing.
The second case happened in Stoneridge Park when two kids the same age got into an argument about sharing food, and one of them ended up dead after the brawl. Cops are telling people to chill out and handle disagreements without violence while they work through both investigations.
A gas canister blew up at a Morningside house in Bulawayo and torched property worth around 700,000 ZiG before firefighters showed up to stop the whole place from getting leveled. The city's fire chief says his crew pulled off a decent save by protecting six expensive cars and about 1.1 million ZiG worth of stuff, but he's annoyed because people waited forever to call it in, and the damage was already done by the time they rolled up.
The nine-kilogram cylinder explosion wrecked the roof and started spreading toward a big servants' quarters before responders contained it. Fire crews also secured two other gas tanks and prevented a solar system from exploding, which would have ripped the entire house apart. Nobody got hurt.
A restaurant running a canteen at the Manhize steelworks site got its stuff seized by court officers after dodging a 27-grand debt to a chicken supplier owned by ex-police commissioner Oliver Chibage. Hotplate Grillhouse and its director stopped paying for hundreds of birds, plus vegetables and meat they ordered back in June, then tried claiming the products were trash that arrived in vehicles without refrigeration.
Chibage's company said the delivery receipts showed zero complaints when the goods got dropped off, and they got both sides to sign a settlement deal where Hotplate would chip away at the balance with monthly payments. The restaurant blew past the deadline without coughing up any cash, which triggered the property seizure...
A Midlands legislator thinks other cities should copy Bulawayo's kombi system because it keeps drivers from acting wild and cuts down on crashes. Perseverance Zhou told parliament the city corralled minibuses into three or four designated spots and keeps them on fixed routes instead of letting them zip around wherever, which apparently keeps private cars from getting run off the road by aggressive drivers.
Zhou wants the transport minister to stick up warning signs at accident hotspots and throw speed bumps on long stretches where people keep wrecking. She also pushed for cameras on bridges to catch people overtaking in blind spots, and she thinks authorities should bring in religious groups to help deal with dangerous drivers who...
Zimbabwe's health minister is telling people not to freak out about American funding getting yanked because the country has enough HIV meds stockpiled to last through the next 10 months. Douglas Mombeshora says the government and National Aids Council have already started buying more supplies to keep antiretroviral treatment flowing without interruption, and nobody needs to ration their medication or skip doses.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa admitted funding cuts are hitting hard right when the country was recovering from COVID disruptions and dealing with other health crises, but he claims Zimbabwe is shifting toward financing its response domestically through the Aids Levy trust fund. The government wants to fold HIV services into...
A church group in Bulawayo is running cleanup events to fix the reputation of students who got known for starting fights and hanging around downtown, causing problems. The World Mission Society Church of God grabbed kids from Milton High who had beef with rival schools and got them picking up trash instead of throwing hands.
One representative says a Form 2 kid who joined last year completely switched up his attitude about the environment and started recruiting other students. The program is trying to calm down the violent rivalry between Milton and Gifford by giving them shared activities that might actually build friendships instead of more brawls across the city.
A lawmaker from Binga South wants the government to throw actual money at Zambezi Valley communities in next year's budget because the area keeps getting ignored despite having economic value. Fanuel Cumanzala told reporters that residents deal with terrible roads, barely any health clinics, almost no electricity, limited clean water access, and schools that kids have to walk forever to reach.
Wildlife keeps wrecking crops and killing livestock, but nobody gets compensation when elephants or lions trash their stuff. Climate disasters hit hard, and there's zero dedicated funding for adaptation or emergency response. The politician is pushing for a protected development fund, better rural water systems, climate-proof farming support...
