President Mnangagwa walked through the Reserve Bank vaults on Thursday to check Zimbabwe's gold stash. He saw 3,400 kilograms of shiny metal sitting there. The country gathered all this gold from mining taxes over two years. Back when April started last year, Zimbabwe only had 1,500 kilograms stored away. The president wanted more gold to make people trust the new money called Zimbabwe Gold.
Mnangagwa told his central bank workers to pile up gold reserves two years back. He wanted real metal backing the country's cash instead of empty promises. Many nations mess up their money because they rely on ideas rather than actual gold. Zimbabwe decided to do things differently and stack up the precious metal. The president believes hard gold...
Government ministers and top officials across Zimbabwe force state companies to pay for their fancy cars and expensive trips. These leaders demand money for satellite TV accounts, gym passes, and hotel stays from businesses that already lose cash every year. The practice drains millions from companies that should serve regular people who earn very little money.
The President's office sent out a strong warning about this problem. Officials wrote that ministers treat state businesses like personal banks to fund luxury lifestyles and foreign vacations. The abuse happens outside approved spending plans and hurts how well these companies can help citizens.
State enterprises face constant pressure to buy expensive vehicles for ministry...
Criminal gangs team up with dirty border guards to sneak dead bodies and drugs across Zimbabwe's busiest crossing point. Bus drivers and truck operators work with corrupt customs workers and health officials at Beitbridge Border Post. Families who cannot pay the huge costs for bringing loved ones home legally turn to these secret routes. Official paperwork and transport can cost up to three thousand dollars for people who died without proper documents. The illegal method costs around five hundred dollars and involves hiding bodies among regular luggage.
Drug dealers have learned to stuff narcotics inside corpses to trick border security. Some criminals even kill people just to use their bodies for smuggling. Police recently caught...
A woman from Nyanga shocked everyone when she admitted to sleeping around for seven years. Emily Bvute told Chief Mutasa's court that she cheated because her husband Jacob Matsanura was bad at sex. She said she would sleep with any man who asked her. Emily is pregnant but has no idea who the father is. She stopped having sex with her husband completely back around 2018.
Jacob married Emily back during 2001 and they have one child who is ten years old. He brought his wife to court after finding out she was pregnant despite them not being together for years. Jacob said Emily had been refusing to sleep with him for a long time. He also mentioned that his brother caught Emily with another man during 2021. The husband said Emily took two...
Health officials are keeping a donated vehicle away from Masvingo City Council. The Global Fund gave nine vehicles to different groups across the province last year. Masvingo City Council was supposed to receive one of these vehicles. Ministry workers claim the vehicle is already being used somewhere else. City leaders have been waiting six months to receive their promised vehicle.
Mayor Alec Tabe says his team does not know why the handover keeps getting delayed. He asked the Provincial Medical Director to speed up the process. The mayor explained that growing clinics need this vehicle to serve people better. Health officials have not explained the reason for holding back the vehicle. The Provincial Medical Director refused to answer...
Rwandan police grabbed opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on Thursday night. They say she tried to start trouble and build a criminal group. Ingabire runs a political party called DALFA-Umurinzi that the government refuses to recognize. Her lawyer thinks the arrest is just another way to shut her up.
Ingabire came back from living outside Rwanda back around 2010. She wanted to run for president but officials stopped her. They said she denied the 1994 genocide happened the way most people believe it did. Police threw her behind bars two years later for trying to form an armed group.
The courts let her out of prison during 2018 after she served six years. Her international lawyer told reporters that Rwanda keeps picking on her and her...
Workers are almost done fixing up the Prospekt Veteranov metro station after starting repairs back in late 2023. The crew has put new marble slabs from Sayan all over the track walls where trains pull up. They also stuck on letters that spell out the station name and added strips that help people find their way around. The team swapped out old plaster pieces for shiny aluminum panels between the wall and floor supports. People who use this station should see these changes very soon.
The original plan had repairs wrapping up around April 2025. The Podzemnik Telegram channel shared news about how much progress the repair team has made. Prospekt Veterans ranks as one of the tiniest subway stops that St. Petersburg has to offer. Leninsky...
Leningrad Region made some serious business deals this year at the big economic meeting held in St. Petersburg. The area's governor, Alexander Drozdenko, talked about how well things went for his region during the event. His team managed to lock down 34 different investment deals with various companies. These agreements add up to a huge sum of money that will help the region grow.
The Kingisepp area came out on top when people looked at how much money each deal was worth. However, the Vsevolozhsk area won when it came to having the most separate agreements with different investor companies. All these business deals together are worth about 740 billion rubles, which is a massive amount of cash for the region.
Drozdenko shared some good...
Apple wants to buy Perplexity after facing problems with its delayed smart assistant features. Company leaders Eddy Cue and Adrian Perica have started talking about purchasing the artificial intelligence startup. The discussions remain at early stages and might not lead anywhere concrete. Perplexity claims it knows nothing about any merger talks happening right away. The startup could become Apple's most expensive purchase if a deal goes through.
Perplexity has a current value of 14 billion dollars according to recent reports. Apple would need to pay that amount or more to complete the acquisition. The tech giant previously spent 3 billion dollars buying Beats back in 2014. This potential deal would break all previous spending records...
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