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A Chinese businessman at a controversial cement plant died after a reported lightning strike. The incident happened in Magunje following a tour of the WIH-ZIM facility by local provincial minister Marian Chombo, according to activist Farai Maguwu. The plant, a 700-million-dollar project meant to...

Chicken Inn just signed the current coach of the year to lead their team. The Bulawayo club named Tonderai Ndiraya as their new head coach on a three-year deal, poaching him from the reigning champions, Scottland FC. Ndiraya, who has previously managed teams like Dynamos, brings a lot of Premier...

A fake park ranger in Zimbabwe just got three years for scamming people with bogus job offers. William Clive Makayi from Karoi pretended to be a Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority officer, conning over ten thousand dollars from victims by promising non-existent training and jobs at...

That ancient Hwange power plant is finally getting a massive, overdue facelift. A 450 million dollar deal with a company called Jindal Steel and Power will fund a full refurbishment of the station's first six units, with work starting early next year. The acting boss of ZESA Holdings, Engineer...

A guy just got two decades in prison for killing his uncle after a fight over HIV status. David Chakahwata from rural Seke was sentenced to twenty years for murdering Thomas Taderera back in 2017, hitting him with a shovel and dumping the body in a deep well. In court, Chakahwata pleaded not...

A college student from the sticks just snagged second place in a major regional contest. Danai Kwedza, a 21-year-old accounting student at the University of Zimbabwe from rural Chihota, placed in the SADC Tertiary Institutions Essay Competition, winning a prize of 1,500 dollars. She stated her...

That AI video guy caved and apologized to the cops after talking big. Content creator David Nhunzva, who was wanted by the Zimbabwe Republic Police for posting deepfake videos they said damaged their reputation, has now publicly said sorry and deleted the material. This flips his original...

The Zimbabwe soccer team is trying to play through a flu outbreak before a huge match. Warriors coach Marian Marinica admitted several people in camp are sick, including his South African assistant Ronald Moroka and himself, ahead of their final Africa Cup of Nations group game against South...

Water levels at that huge Kariba dam are creeping up, but the power situation is still absolutely dire. Recent rain around the lake has provided a tiny boost, with the lake level now at 476.24 meters and usable water storage for power sitting at just over five percent. That pathetic number is...

Road deaths in Zimbabwe basically doubled over the holidays because drivers are awful. Police stats show a brutal spike in accidents for a recent twelve-day period compared to last year, with over 2,400 crashes leading to 100 fatalities and 471 injuries. The worst single incident killed ten...

The UK is still dead last among major economies for putting money into its own future. New international data shows Britain's total investment, mixing both public and private spending, stuck at 18.6 percent of GDP, keeping it at the bottom of the G7 ranking below the United States, Germany...

That small business commissioner guy actually clawed back ten million bucks in late payments for little guys. The Office of the Small Business Commissioner just hit that milestone, recovering about a million in this financial year alone, with over half a million secured just last month. They...

Brits are suddenly using way more electricity after decades of cutting back. New numbers show demand shot up three percent this year, the biggest jump since 2001, thanks to everyone plugging in electric cars, heat pumps, and those power-hungry AI data centers. This marks the first back-to-back...

Business bigwigs just got a bunch of fancy titles from the government. The latest honors list dropped, highlighting a bunch of UK business leaders from different sectors for their economic impact. Major names getting nods include Gary Andrew Hoffman, the Chair of Monzo Bank, who got a CBE, and...

That green energy app you use is becoming its own billion-dollar beast. Octopus Energy is cutting its tech arm Kraken loose in a massive split, valuing the platform at a monster 8.65 billion dollars. This follows a fresh one billion dollar investment led by D1 Capital Partners, with other big...

A major manufacturing group is accusing Reform UK of ripping off its logo. Made in Britain, a politically neutral trade body, issued a statement alleging the party is using a mark substantially similar to its registered logo across campaign merchandise without any authorization. The organization...

A depressing number of people spent their holidays doing taxes instead of celebrating. Over thirty-seven thousand taxpayers filed Self Assessment returns between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, with nearly five thousand completing the task on Christmas Day itself, according to new HMRC data. The...

The founder of LinkedIn is funding a covert digital war for Labour on TikTok. Reid Hoffman is among the Silicon Valley investors bankrolling the effort through a network of agencies, including FourOneOne, which is training Labour MPs and coordinating with social media influencers to counter...

The small business revolt against Labour is spreading from pubs to barber chairs. Hairdressers and barbers are now posting "No Labour MPs" signs in their windows, joining a protest by over a thousand pubs, fueled by anger over what owners call a betrayal on business rates and rising employment...

Sir Jim Ratcliffe's industrial empire is staring down a massive debt crisis again. Ineos is buckling under an eighteen billion pound debt load, with around five billion of its borrowings now trading at distressed prices that signal serious default risk to nervous bondholders. The global...