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Well, there goes your Netflix subscription getting more expensive. Zimbabwe just slapped a fifteen percent tax on payments to foreign digital platforms, with banks and mobile money operators now required to withhold the cash at the point of payment. This new Digital Services Withholding Tax...

That Supreme Court ruling a decade ago basically gave companies a free pass to fire tons of people, and workers still haven't forgotten. The 2015 Zuva Petroleum decision let employers terminate contracts just by giving notice, causing massive layoffs before lawmakers changed the Labour Act. This...

Guy tries crossing the border with a bag of weed, gets a free ride to jail. Exodus Moyo, a thirty-seven-year-old man, was arrested at the Plumtree border post after coming from Botswana with cannabis. Prosecutors led by Sheila Nyathi allege border officials searched him on Christmas Day, finding...

Two dudes in Plumtree just got busted for using fake cash at a bar. Taridzai Oscar Mpofu and Cardwell Chitono, both twenty-five, face fraud charges after allegedly buying beer with a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. They appeared before Magistrate Joshua Nembaware, who sent them to jail until...

A bogus cyber charge gets tossed after someone filmed a weird shrine. Activist Lwazi Khanye from the Mthwakazi Republic Party walked free after prosecutors dropped the case right before his hearing started, with his lawyer Nqobani Sithole present. The charge invoked the Criminal Law Act and the...

Land corruption in Zimbabwe just kicked a family off their farm during planting season. The Mutale family, working a 122-hectare plot in Mashonaland West province from the land reform era, says their summer cropping got wrecked by officials trying to seize their property. This disruption at Just...

So a bunch of religious leaders just backed a president for life, basically. The National Multi-Faith for Economic Dialogue, a coalition with apostles, spirit mediums, and traditional healers, says it fully supports President Emmerson Mnangagwa staying in power past 2030. Their chief convener...

Price hikes ain't stopping Croatian ski bunnies. Despite costs for trips rising around five to ten percent, industry experts like Boris Žgomba from the travel agency association predict no drop in people booking winter sports vacations. The so-called Croatian Ski Week, the period right after the...

A Croatian county is paying people to have babies. Officials in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia, are offering a one-thousand-euro cash gift for each child born starting on the first day of 2026. Prefect Blaž Pezo stated the policy aims to support young families and improve the area's declining...

A war veteran is fighting to reclaim his farm from a joint venture partner he calls a land grabber. John Fadzisayi Jani accuses Ryan Mark Ervine of breaching their agreement for Elmswood Kubvoruno Farm in Marondera by withholding revenue shares for two straight seasons despite documented tobacco...

Zimbabwe's massive state-owned wealth fund just posted its first modest profits. The Mutapa Investment Fund reported earnings of five point eight million dollars in dividends, pulled mainly from its energy and financial services holdings over a fifteen month period. CEO John Mangudya stated the...

A fight between illegal miners over a sex worker turned deadly in Mazowe. Two gangs clashed at Nduku Business Center after an initial argument between Gift Machingaife and Terrence Langton, where Langton stabbed Machingaife in the shoulder. Machingaife then rallied his own group of miners, led...

Four Zesa workers got busted for a brazen cable heist in Karoi. The arrested employees include chief security officer Christen Mutabvure, former clerk Emma Kamba, stores clerk Beloved Mudiwa, and lead artisan Blessing Guramatunhu, all accused of stealing over twenty-eight thousand dollars worth...

A Murewa businessman just hooked up a rural school with a serious tech upgrade. Sam Mapingure donated ten laptops and a full Starlink wifi system to Zhombwe Primary School, aiming to bridge the digital gap for learners near Zhombwe Mountain. He said the move supports the national push for a...

Cops in Matabeleland North just shut down a protest against a sketchy gold miner. Police refused to authorize a demonstration by Inyathi villagers planning to gather at the court appearance of businessman Francesco Marconati, who faces illegal gun charges. The villagers accuse Marconati and his...

Kadoma is drowning because its drains are a complete disaster. Flash floods have turned streets into rivers, with knee-deep water invading homes along Chizuwi, Nyambo, and Munda streets after heavy rain overwhelmed the city's broken drainage system. Residents like Christine Mabwe are trapped...

Opposition figure Job Sikhala is promising to name his would-be assassins in an upcoming South African court case. The former Zimbabwean legislator, out on bail after explosives were found in a car he was using there, claims the incident was a botched hit job orchestrated from Harare. He alleges...

A Zimbabwean think tank might sue the police over a suspicious bombing. The SAPES Trust is threatening legal action, accusing authorities of a slow walk investigation into the firebombing of their Belgravia seminar room last October. The attack, using petrol as an accelerant, destroyed the venue...

Zimbabwe's vice president just fired another shot at his own party's corrupt elite. Constantino Chiwenga, the former army general who led the coup against Robert Mugabe, used a heroes' burial to slam the wealthy clique, known as zvigananda, pushing for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stay in...

Big Brother Mzansi is bringing back seven old contestants for a weird second chance. The show announced a twist for its new season, letting viewers vote for which former housemates get a redemption shot. The group includes Dube, Mmeli, Fahima, Sipha Lee, Bravo B, Lerato, and Liema, but only the...