Zimbabwe's Securities Exchange Commission just teamed up with local universities to build homegrown anti-money-laundering tech instead of dropping cash on pricey foreign systems.
The competition structure and finalists
Four universities qualified: University of Zimbabwe, Midlands State University, Harare Institute of Technology, and NUST.
HIT and NUST advanced to the finals, each receiving 15,000 dollars in funding.
NUST won first prize for its AML Risk-Based Supervision prototype design.
HIT claimed first place in Prudential Risk-Based Supervision and second in AML.
What drove the partnership between SecZim and academia
The initiative arose from a competition where universities created ICT solutions for regulatory challenges...
Kavango Resources just dropped a maiden resource estimate of 33,900 gold ounces at Bill's Luck Mine, worth 179.26 million dollars, as production gears up in Zimbabwe.
The JORC-compliant resource breakdown at Bill's Luck
The estimate totals 33,900 ounces at 2.68 grammes per tonne overall.
Measured category holds 2,600 ounces at 3.3 grammes per tonne concentration.
Indicated category contains 13,400 ounces at 2.7 grammes per tonne grade.
The inferred category accounts for 18,000 ounces at 2.6 grammes per tonne.
Hillside Gold Project's expanding resource portfolio
Bill's Luck is one of four key prospects within the Hillside Gold Project.
Britain, Nightshift, and Steenbok round out the other prospects under development.
Hillside now...
Waddilove High School just crushed another exam cycle with perfect pass rates at Advanced Level, while 98.6 percent of O Level students cleared five subjects or more.
Advanced Level dominance and point distribution breakdown
The Methodist Church-run school maintained its 100 percent A-Level pass rate for multiple consecutive years.
56 learners scored 15 points and above in 2025, beating last year's 55.
Out of 156 candidates, 149 racked up 10 points or more this cycle.
The top student hit 25 points while 27 learners scored 20 each.
Pure Mathematics and top-tier performance surge
39 out of 63 Pure Mathematics candidates earned A grades in the results.
27 learners achieved 20-point scores compared with just 10 in 2024.
The school sits...
Zimbabwe's education ministry just hammered schools for forcing parents to buy overpriced uniforms on campus, calling the practice straight-up illegal and ordering complaints be filed immediately.
The ministry's stance on uniform purchasing freedom
Taungana Ndoro, Director of Communications and Advocacy, delivered the warning at a Bulawayo meeting.
Parents can buy school uniforms from any supplier as long as the color codes match.
Schools cannot make uniform purchases a condition for student enrollment or placement.
The minister already announced the policy on television to make it crystal clear.
Thekwane High School investigation and market competition argument
Thekwane High School is currently under investigation for alleged...
Zimbabwe's ruling party is cooking up constitutional changes that would kill off direct presidential votes, stretch terms to seven years, and hand the executive branch near-total control.
The presidential election system gets gutted completely
Direct public voting for the president would be scrapped under the proposals.
Parliament would pick the head of state in a joint sitting instead.
The dominant party controlling the legislature would essentially crown the president automatically.
Public participation and perceived legitimacy of leadership would take a nosedive.
Term limits and legislative power grabs
Presidential and parliamentary terms would balloon from five to seven years each.
The president could appoint 10 extra senators...
A Gweru cop walked free after a magistrate ruled his ex-girlfriend cooked up assault charges because he dumped her and wouldn't put a ring on it.
The acquittal and the court's reasoning
Arnoby Mapera, 44, faced assault allegations brought by Benhilda Furusa at Gweru Magistrate's Court.
Magistrate Blessing Makaripe found the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The court determined Furusa fabricated the charges out of revenge and frustration.
Mapera's lawyer, Esau Mandipa of Mandipa, Makwara and Chikukwa, represented him successfully.
What triggered Furusa's alleged retaliation campaign
Mapera ended their relationship and started dating someone else last year.
Furusa showed up for a sleepover, then refused to...
Gezani is barreling toward Madagascar's east coast and could slam into the island as a monster Category 4 cyclone by Tuesday with winds hitting 211 kilometers per hour.
The storm's current position and trajectory
Gezani formed on 6 February over the south-west Indian Ocean waters.
The system cruised north of Mauritius and Réunion on 7 and 8 February.
As of 9 February, the storm sat roughly 630 kilometers east of Madagascar.
Sustained winds were clocking 84 kilometers per hour at that point.
Landfall predictions and intensification risk
South African Weather Service expects the cyclone between Mananara Avaratra and Vatomandry.
Favorable environmental conditions could push Gezani to an intense tropical cyclone status.
After hitting...
Zimbabwe's top court just greenlit a legal showdown over Emmerson Mnangagwa's attempt to cling to power past his constitutional expiration date.
ConCourt grants access for the challenge
Mbuso Fuzwayo and Ibhetshu LikaZulu won direct access on Monday.
Justices Paddington Garwe, Ben Hlatshwayo, and Bharat Patel heard arguments.
Fuzwayo has five days to file, while respondents get three to answer.
The NewsHawks broke the story on the court's decision.
What Resolution 1 of 2024 actually demands
ZANU-PF adopted the resolution at their Bulawayo conference in October 2024.
The measure pushes Mnangagwa's exit from 2028 out to 2030.
Party officials were ordered to amend Zimbabwe's constitution to make it happen.
Mutare's 2025 conference...
Ads are invading ChatGPT for the first time ever, and OpenAI is rolling them out to free users and budget subscribers starting right now in America.
Who's getting hit with the banners
Free-tier users are the primary guinea pigs for this experiment.
Go subscribers paying eight bucks monthly will also see them.
Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans remain ad-free for now.
OpenAI claims it's collecting feedback before going wider with rollout.
The company's pitch on answer integrity
Conversations stay completely private from anyone buying ad space, supposedly.
Sponsored content gets labeled clearly and separated from actual responses.
ChatGPT's replies won't shift based on which brands pay up.
OpenAI frames this as...
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