Regional football hype is about to spike, and Francistown is where Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe will scrap for bragging rights.
What just got locked in
Mukuru grabbed the tournament title sponsorship.
Francistown, Botswana, hosts the whole thing.
Obed Itani Chilume Stadium gets the matches.
Four Southern African teams are involved.
When the action hits
The tournament runs from 28 to 31 March 2026.
Tuesday, 24 March, brings the official draw.
SuperSport will air the draw live.
Thursday, 19 March, carried the confirmation.
Who is showing up
Botswana enters as the host nation.
Malawi is part of the four-team field.
Zambia also made the tournament mix.
Zimbabwe rounds out the lineup.
What the draw decides
The official draw...
Sketchy cosmetic hustles are getting dragged, and anyone doing medical-grade tweaks in fake setups could catch legal heat fast.
What HPAZ is calling out
Health Professions Authority Zimbabwe flagged off-book beauty procedures.
Salons are pushing treatments meant for legit clinics.
Spas were named in the warning, and boutiques.
Clotilda Chimbwanda said rule-breakers face hard consequences.
What counts as illegal here
Teeth whitening showed up on the banned list.
Injections outside health facilities break the law.
Botox sits with fillers and deep peels.
BBL, liposuction, and facelifts also got named.
What the law requires
Section 121 blocks unregistered people from medical work.
Section 99 says health institutions need HPA...
More scholarship cash just hit the board, and Mashonaland West students who were getting iced out finally caught a real shot.
How the fund just expanded
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe added five CUT scholarships.
Mashonaland West finally joined the program footprint.
The fund has been rolling for five years.
Total beneficiaries jumped to 42 students.
Where it already had roots
The National University of Science and Technology got linked recently.
Africa University was already in the lineup.
Midlands State University had a deal earlier.
Manicaland, Midlands, and Matabeleland were already covered.
Who gets picked at the CUT
Chinhoyi University of Technology landed five student awards.
Three female students get the first crack.
Two male...
Zimbabwe's surprise lithium-export ban lit a fire under the Chinese Embassy, which told its nationals to seriously vet local risks before investing.
The lithium ban that triggered it
Raw lithium and concentrate exports got frozen immediately.
The original deadline was January 2027, but it jumped ahead.
Companies were hoarding and shipping instead of investing locally.
Minerals already in transit got caught in the suspension.
Chinese Embassy's warning on 19 March
The embassy told investors to deeply assess Zimbabwe's policies.
Risk-management strategies and legal compliance got emphasized.
Sudden government policy shifts could torch their investments.
Chinese enterprises were urged to follow local laws strictly.
Misinformation tanked Clause 11 of the Medical Services Amendment Bill after Senators bought into overblown claims about legalizing abortion on demand.
Edwin Mushoriwa's take on Clause 11
Edwin Mushoriwa said false narratives gutted the clause.
Religious groups allegedly never read the actual text.
Mushoriwa backed the bill in the National Assembly initially.
What Clause 11 actually targeted
It aimed to sync a 1977 law with the 2013 Constitution.
Abortion-on-demand framing was flat-out wrong per Mushoriwa.
Existing legal grounds for termination stayed unchanged.
Senate pushback and what happens next
Traditional leaders in the Senate pushed for the deletion.
The bill got bounced back to the National Assembly.
A man charged with insulting the President reportedly took his own life just one day after getting released on US$50 bail in Bulawayo.
Tineyi Mhosva's arrest and death
Tineyi Mhosva got bailed out on 10 March.
He reportedly ingested poison the very next day.
Mhosva had been nabbed over remarks made on 26 February.
What allegedly sparked the charge
Mhosva confronted a vendor wearing a ZANU-PF cap.
Anna Mupandira was rocking an anti-criticism hat.
He allegedly trashed Mnangagwa and ZANU-PF supporters publicly.
Prosecutors framed the comments as undermining presidential authority.
A fraudulent land deal in Marondera landed one man in ZACC's crosshairs after he allegedly flipped a residential stand he never owned.
Emerson Konola's fraud charge
Emerson Konola allegedly sold a stand in Shepperton.
Betty Mashonganyika reportedly paid US$11,900 for it.
Konola had zero ownership rights over that property.
He popped up at Marondera Magistrates' Court on 18 March.
Tobacco prices are creeping upward on Zimbabwe's auction and contract floors after merchants finally locked down their bank credit lines.
TIMB on the price uptick
TIMB boss Emmanuel Matsvaire credited more merchant activity.
Buyers stalled initially over unfinished bank deals.
Participation picked up roughly a week post-opening.
Auction floor numbers
Average auction prices climbed to US$1.69 per kilogram.
The starting point was US$1.60 per kilogram on day one.
Contract floor numbers
Contract prices bumped up to US$2.78 per kilogram.
They kicked off at US$2.64 per kilogram initially.
Still trailing last year
Prices sit roughly 24% below 2025's same-period mark.
Zimbabwe runs a dual auction-and-contract marketing setup.
An insanity plea just landed in court from a former cop facing four murder charges who blamed goblins for his alleged killing spree.
Jaison Muvevi's defense strategy
Jaison Muvevi claimed evil spirits controlled him.
His mother had hauled him to an apostolic shrine.
Lawyer Blessed Matandire pushed for a special verdict.
Muvevi said he was mentally wrecked back then.
The alleged killing spree
Muvevi allegedly gunned down an apostolic sect prophet.
Inspector Maxwell Hove from Wedza station reportedly died.
Crispen Mubvana and Munashe Mujanhi were also killed.
Detective Constable Tendai Mugova got injured.
Flight and capture
Muvevi allegedly bolted to Mozambique after Mutare.
Civilians grabbed him and handed him to local cops...
