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Police in Guruve are hunting Anymore Zvitsva after five relatives got killed at Ona Farm, and cops think he might be behind other murders that have been hitting the area since October. Drones and special units are searching forests and mountains where the guy apparently went to ground. The...

Women in Ilanda are running night patrols after the suburb got tired of break-ins and petty theft. Sheba Makanyanga, who sits on the local watch committee, helped organize the whole thing after people realized staying quiet about crime was getting them nowhere. The group uses phones and...

A Bulawayo guy got six years for holding cocaine and weed after cops busted him and his wife during a traffic stop. Darian-Lee Kevin Lloyd Jackson from West Somerton will do four years behind bars after the magistrate knocked off two for good behavior conditions, while his wife, Lakin Lee...

A Bulawayo woman in her sixties dodged jail after whacking her cousin with a crutch during an argument about property. Karen Lusinga got four months suspended for three years after admitting to the assault at her Emganwini place, and the sentence only sticks if she stays clean. The whole thing...

People going through Beitbridge are hyped about how fast things move after Zimbabwe dropped serious cash on upgrades. The $300 million overhaul cut wait times way down, and pedestrians get through in half an hour versus the three-plus hours they used to deal with. Cars with proper paperwork...

Bulawayo's jazz fest got pushed back from its restaurant venue slot, and the organizers say they want to make the whole thing better for everyone involved. Selmor Mtukudzi, Victor Kunonga, Jeys Marabani, Mahlaba, and The Outfit Band with Mimmie Tarukwana were all lined up to perform. People who...

Zimbabwe's ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera says the country's first National Development Strategy helped push through a bunch of tech sector upgrades. The framework, which ran until 2025, set up policies and reforms aimed at hitting middle-income status by 2030. She talked about this at a World...

Lieutenant General Victor Khrenin from Belarus met with Zimbabwe's Defense Minister Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri at Defence House in Harare. The Belarusian official brought along his deputy minister, Major General Andrey Burdyko, who handles logistics and oversees the armed forces, plus some other...

Police in Nabweru grabbed nine South Sudanese people after their househelp turned up dead with nasty head wounds inside a residence in Wakiso district. A clinical officer got called to treat the maid, but she was already gone when the medic showed up, and her body vanished before cops could...

Uganda's military finally copped to snatching a Catholic priest after his diocese spent a week hunting through police stations trying to find him. Father Deusdedit Ssekabira got grabbed by armed guys from his NGO office in Masaka City, and the army stayed quiet until Bishop Severus Jjumba...

A Ugandan court told the civil aviation authority to cough up twenty-six million shillings after they fired a security guy who busted someone smuggling rhino horns through the airport. Arnold Olweny spotted a sketchy bag back in 2017, called wildlife officials, and helped them catch a passenger...

Electro-Harmonix just brought a lost Big Muff design to life after JHS Pedals guy Josh Scott and artist Daniel Danger dug up an old schematic that creator Bob Myer never actually produced back in the late seventies. The Big Muff Pi 2 runs on dual op-amps instead of the usual transistor setup...

2Rule dropped TugMoveEffect as a free plugin that lets people scatter effects across a 2D workspace and blend them based on how close an orange control point sits to each instance. The software handles thirteen effect types like distortion and reverb with three slots per type, and users can...

Blue Cat Audio dropped version 3.2 for Remote Control, which lets people wrangle multiple plugins or MIDI gear from one screen. The company totally rebuilt the interface with customizable grid layouts and over forty control types like pads and knobs, plus multi-touch support on Windows that...

discoDSP pushed version 8.11 for Discovery Pro with a bunch of synthesis upgrades and workflow tweaks. The update throws in a JP-8080 supersaw oscillator that stacks seven sawtooth waves for fat trance leads, adds real-time scope visualization with stereo display and glow effects, upgrades the...

Ocean Swift dropped Tyrian Tine for the free Kontakt Player, and the thing mashes up wavetable synthesis with sampled metallic sounds pulled from bells and kalimbas. The dual-layer setup lets people generate bell tones and chime textures with built-in randomization that keeps everything feeling...

MeldaProduction dropped MMicSim, which lets people fake expensive microphone sounds through whatever cheap gear they already own. The plugin ships with over a hundred mic models spanning dynamics to tube condensers, and the company keeps adding vintage and modern options to the database. The...

Kushview pushed out reTuner as a free pitch conversion tool that runs as either a plugin or a standalone app with file export capability. The software uses Rubber Band Library tech to shift tuning standards without wrecking audio quality, and it works across Windows, macOS, and Linux through...

Audialab dropped Interloper, which splits audio signals into separate frequency zones that users can blend together without messing up the original punch. The multi-band plugin works across Windows and Mac systems through VST3, AU, and AAX formats for most major studio software. The tool lets...

Camp David AudioSuite released Optomis 1, a two-stage compressor plugin built around the dynamics chain from their Miami studio. The company modeled the plugin after gear used across two decades of RIAA-certified work that racked up Grammy nods and Billboard chart toppers. The compressor...