Finally, some movement at that Beitbridge border nightmare. That brutal five-day snarl on the South African side is apparently gone after authorities threw some new tactics at the problem. Travelers were stuck for like ten hours in that mess. A spokesperson for the Border Management Authority, Mmemme Mogotsi, said things looked way better by Tuesday night. She mentioned the road is clear for regular cars now, with trucks backed up only near a weighbridge a few kilometers out.
They fixed it by opening more service points and getting agencies from both sides to actually talk to each other. South African and Zimbabwean officials are running a joint traffic plan for the holiday rush, which means more bodies on the ground and extra...
Absolute nightmare fuel on the Zambezi. A woman named Brenda Nyoni got killed by a crocodile near Binga over the weekend, with what was left of her found inside the animal later. Matabeleland North police inspector Glory Banda confirmed the details. Nyoni was with her husband, Taylor Bruce, and two others on a river island for a leisure trip when it happened.
The group took a speedboat to the spot. Nyoni and another woman, Sithembokuhle Baloyi, went into the water to take pictures. Bruce stayed on the sand with a fourth person. According to the police account, the two women were lying in the water for photos when a croc surfaced. It grabbed Nyoni, tossed her around, and dragged her under. Bruce tried to pull her out when she briefly...
Dude just dominated again. Tanaka Katsande and Nomalungelo Mathe locked down their spots for the 2026 Nationals after sweeping the Open and Ladies sections at the CABS Candidates chess event in Bulawayo. They ran the tables at the Christian Brothers College venue. This makes three straight wins for Katsande at this tournament, finishing with a perfect eight points without a loss. Mathe also didn't drop a single game in her section, putting up seven and a half points.
Katsande mentioned the competition was no joke, calling his opponents tough and prepared. He said his whole goal now is taking the national championship title, which would get him on the Zimbabwe squad for the Olympiad. He really does not want to have to grind through this...
Wild stuff. The Bulawayo City Council’s parking contractor, Tendy Three Investments, just dropped ninety grand on food parcels for twenty five hundred households around Bulawayo and Matabeleland North. Their big boss, Lizwe Mabuza, and the local deputy mayor, Edwin Ndlovu, were all over this. They targeted people having a rough go, like disabled residents, older folks, and orphans, with some aid going out to Hwange and Binga districts. This whole thing was pitched as their slice of the Mayor’s Christmas Cheer Fund.
Apparently, the parking dudes are feeling pretty good about their grip on the city. Mabuza stated they control around sixty percent of the spots now. He admitted that some streets are still a mess for enforcement because the...
Turns out there is a paper trail explaining why that serial offender was back on the streets. Prison officials say Peter Mwenyeveza got his four-year sentence for cattle theft chopped down by a bunch of presidential get-out-of-jail-free cards. He was originally supposed to be locked up until late 2027, but three separate amnesties over one year shaved a total of twenty-one months off his time, leading to his release last December.
Here is the kicker. While out, he got nabbed for a bicycle theft case and was in police custody for court dates in June and July. The prison service claims he never came back to their facility after that, insisting any fallout from his later alleged motorcycle robberies is a police problem, not theirs. They...
National Bank of Malawi just dropped thirty-three million Kwacha worth of medical gear at Chilomoni Health Centre. The donation, which wraps up the bank's holiday charity drive, includes patient monitors, an ECG machine, a biochemistry analyzer, oxygen concentrators, and a bunch of other critical equipment like wheelchairs and a defibrillator. Health centre boss Dr. Steven Mlangiza said this stuff is a big deal for their planned upgrade to a full community hospital, which needs to serve over sixty-five thousand people.
This particular gift was the final piece of a much larger two hundred fifty-five million Kwacha corporate social responsibility package. The bank's retail banking head, Oswin Kasunda, called it the grand finale of their...
The whole outrage over the VP's vacation isn't really about the trip itself. It's about the staggering price tag and the parade of staffers reportedly on the taxpayers' dime during an economic crisis. Calling it private does not matter once public money and government personnel get involved. People staring down empty hospitals and hungry kids tend to notice when nearly two billion Kwacha might fund a birthday party abroad.
This is a major optics fail for an administration that got voted in by promising better judgment than the last guys. Voters handed the DPP power out of frustration, not to sign off on the same tone deaf behavior. Leadership requires reading the room, and the room is full of citizens who would rather that cash bought...
National Bank of Malawi apparently set some kind of benchmark by snagging the top spot in a bank brand contest. The so-called Superbrand Awards, run by a marketing group, ranked NBM plc first in the financial services category after an evaluation process that weighed performance and what regular people think. The results put Standard Bank in second place and FDH Bank in third.
A manager from the winning bank, Akossa Hiwa, made the usual comments about the award reflecting customer trust. She said the recognition came from focusing on digital stuff and trying to be dependable. The whole thing is based on national research, according to a spokesperson for the marketing institute. They claim the awards identify strong brands through...
The Vice President of Malawi is about to drop nearly two billion Kwacha of public money on a personal vacation to the UK. Official paperwork shows Jane Ansah's trip to celebrate her husband's birthday will cost taxpayers about 1.1 million dollars. The budget includes a first-class ticket for her and business class seats for eight staffers, plus daily cash allowances and a clothing stipend, despite a government travel freeze for other officials.
She is bringing sixteen people, including her own brother, listed as a special adviser and a personal friend, called a special guest. The delegation has duplicate roles like multiple accountants and assistants, for a so-called private visit. The whole thing is extra wild because children are...
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