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Tokyo Toni just declared war on anyone coming for Nicki Minaj's political shift. The internet personality went viral for a furious video defense of the rapper after singer Khia criticized Minaj's recent pro-Trump appearance at the Turning Point USA AmericaFest event, accusing her of selling out...

Dwight Howard just got roasted for suggesting mandatory national service. The former NBA player tweeted a "random" policy idea that Donald Trump should enforce a required year of service for every American citizen, claiming it would build discipline and structure by following other countries'...

Some guy on the internet tried to shame Claressa Shields for buying her own Louis Vuitton. Instagram creator mrskinnytv posted a video critiquing the boxer's holiday shopping flex, questioning her circle, criticizing her appearance, and bizarrely suggesting it would be more impressive if a man...

A Chinese investor got struck by lightning after a minister visited a disputed cement plant. The man died following the incident in Magunje, Mashonaland West, which occurred shortly after Minister Marian Chombo toured the site of a contentious US$700 million Chinese-backed project by WIH-ZIM, a...

Somebody is finally trying to use AI to stop African road accidents before they even happen. Zimbabwean-born entrepreneur Tendai Joe, founder of RoadMind AI based in Cape Town, is developing predictive systems that analyze road surfaces and hazards to provide risk insights for governments...

A huge water project is finally fixing a chronic crisis for thousands in Binga. A major rehabilitation of a sixty-five-kilometer pipeline in Mlibizi, led by the Zimbabwe government and the United Nations Development Programme with UK support, now delivers clean water to over forty thousand...

That parking meter money actually went to feeding people in Bulawayo. The city's parking system operator, Tendy Tree Investments, distributed food hampers to thousands of vulnerable residents last week through a council partnership, with managing director Lizwe Mabuza stating the five-year-old...

A local ward just handed out donations to its most vulnerable residents. Councillor Aleck Ndlovu and his Ward 25 Compassion Team distributed gifts of clothing, linen, food, and essential goods during a ceremony at Mgiqika Primary School, attended by community leaders, church groups, and...

Bulawayo had a brutally slow year for getting anything done. Mayor David Coltart explained that the city's 2025 service delivery was crippled by a massively delayed budget approval, endless bureaucracy, and broken funding promises from higher levels of government. Key projects like the Glass...

British officials briefly considered invading Zimbabwe to oust Mugabe. Declassified documents from 2004 reveal the UK government, under Prime Minister Tony Blair, debated extreme options for dealing with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, who was seen as "depressingly fit" at age eighty despite...

Marinica just blamed pure mistakes for Zimbabwe's Afcon exit. Following a tough 3-2 loss to South Africa that knocked them out of the Africa Cup of Nations 2025, head coach Marian Marinica told reporters the failure was not about naivety. He pointed directly to errors from players like...

Google account verification is completely broken in Zimbabwe right now. People across the country are finding themselves locked out of critical services like Gmail, WhatsApp, and Microsoft 365 because SMS one-time passcodes simply are not arriving. The issue stems from a brutal combination of...

DStv is getting gutted as a bunch of major channels are getting the axe. Subscribers across Africa, including Zimbabwe, are looking at losing at least four channels for sure by the end of 2025, with twelve more popular ones possibly vanishing too. The channels definitely getting pulled are MTV...

Cops say your illegal New Year's fireworks will get you arrested. Zimbabwe police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi warned the public that setting off fireworks or firecrackers without a permit from local authorities is a criminal offense. He stated police will be cracking down on any...

A South African mayor is catching serious heat for hiring a guy from Zimbabwe to fix the water system. Polokwane Mayor John Mpe defended the appointment of Kennedy Chihota as the new Director of Water and Sanitation, saying the choice was purely about qualifications, not politics. He pointed out...

South African troops just nabbed over a thousand people trying to sneak across the border from Zimbabwe. Soldiers arrested 1,174 undocumented Zimbabweans in a single operation during the past week, calling it an unusually massive influx for the holiday season. The situation turned violent, with...

The country's biggest dam is literally about to overflow. Zimbabwe's water authority issued an urgent alert that Tugwi-Mukosi Dam is at 99.6 percent capacity and could spill over at any moment due to heavy rains, after being at 99.4 percent just a day before. Officials are telling everyone...

Zimbabwe is prepping to shoot its third satellite into orbit pretty soon. The country plans to launch ZimSat-3 as a key part of its next five-year economic strategy, following earlier satellites sent up in 2022 and 2024. The government says this new bird will boost data collection for a bunch of...

A journalism intern on the run for over a year got busted for stealing a government laptop. Police in Chipinge arrested Livingstone Mtetwa, a 28-year-old who was doing his industrial attachment with the information ministry, accusing him of taking a laptop from a district office back in May of...

The national budget is now officially law, with a couple of key proposals getting axed along the way. President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Finance Act and the Appropriation Act, legally enacting the 2026 budget. The process saw Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube backtrack on two major points...