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People in the Guruve district are completely freaked out. The cops are after a guy named Anymore Zvitsva, who they call Modho. He is thirty-two years old. They think he is a serial killer. There is a bounty on his head for info that gets him caught. This is all going down in Bosha Village up in...

The finance ministry is finally admitting that they froze a bunch of paycheck deductions on purpose. For the last four months, they have been holding back money meant for banks and microfinance companies that civil servants use for loans. Minister Mthuli Ncube says it was not a glitch or a cash...

The flood death toll is rising in the South. Police in Matabeleland South confirm three people have drowned in separate river incidents, with four more still stranded. Inspector Chiratidzo Dube gave the grim breakdown. In Bulilima, that group of four people who went to harvest mopane worms last...

The village drama is always next level. A guy in Rusape named Beyond Magwena got publicly humiliated when a whole crew showed up at his house with his girlfriend, causing a huge scene in front of his actual wife. The girlfriend's brother, Phibion Mutombwa, took him to the local chief's court. He...

So the bodyguard for that celebrity preacher, Walter Magaya, just walked free. Tapiwa Fellix Chikondo was on trial for trying to mess with a police investigation, specifically a rape case involving his boss. The charge was obstructing justice. A magistrate in Harare named Tapiwa Kuhudzai found...

A Chinese mining company just got booted from a local investment deal by the High Court. Ming Chang Sino Africa Investment, along with Fuel Africa and an individual named Wang Ke, have been ordered off the share register for Gwampa Mining. The court agreed with Gwampa that the shares given to...

The tourism authority is apparently cleaning house, and the staff is not happy about how it is going down. Word is the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, under its acting CEO William Stima, has fired a bunch of senior people. This includes three directors and about a dozen other department heads and...

Well, this is a new one. A British guy just got a Zimbabwean court to greenlight the sale of a local woman's house to settle a debt from a rental dispute in the UK. Clayton Allen took Blessing Chinganga to a British county court over unpaid rent on a place in Wolverhampton. He won a judgment for...

Another horrific day of domestic violence. In Beitbridge, a thirty-five-year-old woman named Faith Dube has been arrested for murder. The police say she killed her father-in-law in Tshishala Village. The alleged motive was an ongoing conflict over his constant drinking, which she blamed for...

The Warriors' coach is already doing the math after a brutal opening loss. Zimbabwe's national team boss, Marian Marinica, says they need to grab four points from their next two games to have any shot at the knockout rounds. This comes after they fell to Egypt two to one in Agadir, a match where...

Even with their own team winning, a former South African star is already sweating the final group game. Ex-Bafana Bafana keeper Itumeleng Khune is warning everyone not to sleep on Zimbabwe at the Africa Cup of Nations. Talking after South Africa's opening win, he called their upcoming match...

A whole family is clinging to trees on a submerged river island right now, and the official response appears to be a shrug. Five people have been stuck on the Thekwane River in Ndolwane, near Plumtree, since Sunday. They were trying to get home after harvesting mopane worms, using a donkey cart...

Another brutal morning on the Harare to Mutare road. A massive Benz truck smashed head-on into a Nissan Note near the 119-kilometer marker. Police confirm three people are dead, all of them in the smaller car. The driver and two others in the Nissan died right there at the scene. A fourth person...

Unreal. The absolute gall of these people. Parliament dropped almost four hundred grand in public money, specifically three hundred seventy two thousand and change, to renovate the private Borrowdale house of Senate President Mabel Chinomona. This was not for official business. This was for her...

Just when you think local government cannot get more dysfunctional, we get a masterclass in grift. Paramedics for the Harare City Council are under a microscope for allegedly stealing ambulance fees. The basic charge for a city ambulance ride is thirty U.S. dollars. These crews are supposed to...

Of course, a major agri-scheme gets busted because someone finally did a site visit. A thirty-year-old Harare man, Blessing Benhura, is sitting in jail until next January over a wild fertilizer and seed scam targeting the Agricultural Rural Development Authority, known as ARDA. Prosecutors say...

Just when you think municipal corruption cannot get any more blatant. The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, ZACC, is apparently looking into the Kwekwe City Council. The issue is vendor money that seems to have vanished into thin air. The mayor there, Albert Zinhanga, confirmed the probe...

Here we go again. The human cryptocurrency that is Wicknell Chivayo is back on the feed, this time playing philanthropic sugar daddy. The controversial businessman, known for his flashy giveaways to ZANU-PF allies, just dropped a massive gift on former ZTV news anchor Oscar Pambuka. The haul...

The online ZANU-PF fan club, Varakashi4ED, is having a complete meltdown over a radio popularity contest. Their national chairman, some guy named Godwin Nkatha, is demanding the immediate firing of a ZiFM Stereo host, MisRed, whose actual name is Samantha Mary Musa. This is over the Rush Drive...

A Zimbabwe radio station called ZiFM Stereo had to clarify a whole thing after their show The Rush, hosted by MisRed, did some audience vote called the Rush Awards. The vote named opposition figure Fadzayi Mahere the overall winner. This did not go over well with some people online, specifically...