Dude won a Grammy but is out here slinging groceries for the holidays. DJ Black Coffee, real name Nkosinathi Maphumulo, is doing the whole charity saint thing with his foundation. They kicked off a food drive across a bunch of provinces, supposedly to help struggling families have a better Christmas.
The operation started in his home turf of KwaZulu-Natal, hitting spots like uMlazi and KwaMashu. Then the team rolled through the Eastern Cape, dumping donations in a bunch of towns, including Ngangelizwe and Bizana. They also made a stop in Soweto, in Gauteng. The whole tour is wrapping up in Limpopo, because, of course, you need to hit a final province for the press release. The foundation branded it with some feel-good theme about...
Cops are out with new breathalysers at checkpoints everywhere, already nabbing drunk drivers from Mbare to Banket. They're impounding cars and sending people to court under a fresh crackdown. The government handed over a bunch of this gear last month, about a hundred devices with printers and disposable mouthpieces.
The legal limit is eighty milligrams of alcohol per hundred milliliters of blood. Get caught over that, and you're looking at huge fines or even five years inside. They're especially harsh on bus and truck drivers, who could get locked up for a decade. The police boss, Stephen Mutamba, said most crashes are from human error and warned they'll be out in full force. A council official, Lizwe Bhunu, was on Seke Road talking...
The state agricultural authority, ARDA, is going huge on grains this season as the official food security agent. Their CEO, Tinotenda Mhiko, says they're planting across a hundred thousand hectares. The plan involves thirty-five thousand hectares of irrigated maize and another sixty-five thousand for traditional grains like sorghum or millet.
This is all part of the government's push for a bigger strategic grain reserve. They're working with various farmers, including outgrower schemes and smallholders, across all the farming provinces. Mhiko framed it as a massive, tech-driven planting operation to turn policy into actual crops. He noted traditional grains are getting a bigger focus for drier areas, calling it a climate resilience...
A government minister just stated that changing the constitution to keep President Mnangagwa in office until 2030 would be perfectly legal. Information Minister Jenfan Muswere made these comments during a fund disbursement event in Rusape. He argued that the Constitution itself can be amended since people created it.
The occasion involved handing out a presidential constituency fund totaling one hundred twenty-five thousand US dollars across five areas in Makoni. Each constituency got twenty-five grand for local projects. A presidential advisor, Paul Tungwarara, distributed the money. Muswere listed various dams and irrigation schemes as examples of the president's good work, suggesting these projects motivate people to want him to...
Another train got wrecked by the weather. A National Railways of Zimbabwe freight train hauling coal and chrome to Mozambique derailed near Chikombedzi after heavy rain. The line got washed out in the Makambe area, specifically around St. John's, leaving several wagons damaged. NRZ rep Andrew Kunambura confirmed the mess, noting no one got hurt.
Kunambura called it a washaway, where floods erode the track foundation. He said these things happen everywhere, and a crew is on it. They figure the line will be running again within two days. The full damage to the cars and rails is still being looked at, but crews are supposedly working fast to clear it.
Cops in Beitbridge grabbed two dudes they say were part of a crew hitting shops at gunpoint. Gerald Chihovo, who's twenty-five, and an eighteen-year-old named Takudzwa Hlongwane got nabbed after a string of robberies at Lutumba Growth Point. They just appeared in court facing robbery charges and got sent back to sit in a cell until their joint trial early next year.
The story from prosecutors is pretty wild. Apparently, back in November, these two plus three other guys with street names like Dread and Washington rolled up on four different spots in like an hour and a half. They were packing pistols, putting them to people's heads and demanding cash. They hit a general dealer, a homestead, and other shops, walking away with a mix of...
A big money deal just dropped for renewables in Southern Africa. A company called GreenCo, which basically buys and flips solar and wind power across the region, just got a huge fifty-million-euro payment guarantee backed by the European Commission and Impact Fund Denmark. This financial cushion is supposed to unlock over five hundred megawatts of new solar and wind projects in places where GreenCo operates, like Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia.
The whole point is to fix a common problem where private investors get scared off because there's no reliable long-term buyer for the power. This guarantee makes GreenCo a safer bet, so builders can get funding for new plants. Company exec Cathy Oxby framed it as proving African...
Total holiday chaos mode across Zimbabwe. Travelers got absolutely rinsed by bus operators jacking up prices, with routes like Harare to Mhondoro seeing fares spike from a few bucks to fifteen dollars overnight. People like Anna Chinjanja called it a straight-up ripoff. Retailers, though, cleaned up. A shop owner named Kudakwashe Chipere reported business shooting up by fifty percent as everyone scrambled for last-minute groceries and gifts. The scenes in Harare's downtown and Mbare were packed, with cops trying to manage gridlocked traffic and crowded pavements.
The transport sector was a mess. A guy named Andrew Mandaza, who runs public transport, admitted demand skyrocketed. Some sketchy truck owners even rigged up tarps on their...
The government's devolution cash supposedly built a new clinic in Ruwa, a move local officials are hyping as a win for President Mnangagwa's policies. The Damofalls Clinic, opened by the Ruwa Local Board, is now serving that area along with East View and chunks of Goromonzi and Mabvuku. It currently runs basic outpatient and immunization services, with plans to add a maternity wing next year.
A midwife there, Sister Musabayana, confirmed they're only running those two departments for now. A board manager, Josephine Mwaitirwa, called the place a game-changer for locals who used to travel far for care, saying medicines and staff are available. Ruwa's mayor, Michael Mataruka, also mentioned that people can even pay their municipal bills...
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