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A top official visited the family of a dead white farmer. Vice President Constantino Chiwenga went to the Chinhoyi farm of the Swanepoel family, offering condolences for patriarch Nick Swanepoel. The former Commercial Farmers’ Union president died back in May. Swanepoel was known as a voice for...

A husband died over a late Christmas dinner. Levy Mautsa, a kombi driver from Glen Norah in Harare, was stabbed to death by his wife after a fight about supper not being ready on time. The argument started on Christmas Eve, with police saying Mautsa hit his wife and broke her phone. A neighbor...

A Zimbabwean official beat a major corruption case. Former Mashonaland West Minister Reuben Marumahoko was acquitted of defrauding a state farming agency. The Chinhoyi Magistrates Court found insufficient proof that he intentionally scammed the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority...

The rains in Zimbabwe are straight up killing people. At least fifty-nine people have died since the current rainfall season began, with massive damage to schools, health clinics, and hundreds of homes. The Civil Protection Unit says the property damage totals over a hundred thousand dollars...

Tories are asking if a dead pedophile brokered a huge bank deal. Senior Conservatives want to know if Jeffrey Epstein facilitated talks for JP Morgan's purchase of Royal Bank of Scotland assets back in 2010, when Labour's Peter Mandelson was business secretary. They cite a later JP Morgan report...

New rules kicked the scammers right in the teeth. The UK's company registry, Companies House, started making new directors verify their identities, and the number of new businesses registering immediately tanked. Weekly incorporations dropped about thirty percent after the law took effect in...

A bunch of countries just blasted Israel's new diplomatic move. Twenty-one nations from the Arab, Islamic, and African world jointly rejected Israel's recognition of Somaliland as independent from Somalia. They called it a major breach of international law that could wreck peace in the Horn of...

A mosque bombing shows Syria is still breaking. The UN chief, Antonio Guterres, slammed the attack on an Alawite mosque in Homs, calling for justice. The blast at the Ali Bin Abi Talib mosque during prayers killed at least eight and wounded twenty. A group named Ansar al-Sunna, linked to ISIS...

A pro-war guy got six years for a blog post. A Moscow court threw the book at Sergei Udaltsov, a leftist activist who sometimes backed the Ukraine war but also criticized Vladimir Putin. The 2nd Western District Military Court convicted him of justifying terrorism over an article he wrote more...

That conflict in Sudan is somehow getting even worse. The UN leader, Antonio Guterres, is begging for a ceasefire again as the fighting hits a one-year mark with more violence and displaced people. He mentioned a peace plan from Sudan's Transitional Prime Minister, but said only stopping the war...

The former president could get a decade in prison. South Korean prosecutors want a ten-year sentence for the ousted leader, Yoon Suk Yeol. Special Prosecutor Cho Eun-seok is leading the case. The charges involve obstructing an arrest, linked to the time Yoon spent holed up in the presidential...

Two neighboring countries finally stopped shooting at each other. Thailand and Cambodia signed a new ceasefire deal, ending recent fighting over their disputed border area. The Thai Defense Minister, General Natthaphon Narkphanit, and Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister, Tea Seiha, inked the...

A bad storm knocked out power for thousands in Limpopo. Severe thunderstorms damaged the Nkowankowa and Lenyenye substations in Greater Tzaneen, leaving communities like Dan village and Muhlava in the dark after strong winds and heavy rain. Eskom repair crews faced delays when a truck got stuck...

The Ekurhuleni metro is auctioning off a bunch of impounded cars if nobody claims them. About one hundred seventy-three vehicles will go under the hammer by the end of January, a move to clear city pounds and recoup storage costs from unclaimed property. Owners have a final chance to reclaim...

A nasty storm wrecked homes in KwaZulu-Natal, leaving a trail of damage. The thunderstorm hit the Midlands with heavy rain, strong winds, and large hail, destroying around fifty houses and affecting over one hundred fifty households across the Amajuba and Umzinyathi districts. Five people were...

Joburg's plan for hijacked buildings sparked a fight between the ANC and Herman Mashaba. The political clash centers on the city's strategy to negotiate with tenants before eviction, which ActionSA's leader called a dangerous deal with criminals. The ANC fired back, defending the approach as a...

Cable thieves ruined Christmas for a whole lot of people in Pretoria. A power outage lasting three days hit areas like Olievenhoutbosch, Thatchfield, and Highveld after a fire at the Olivenhoutbosch Substation caused by cable theft on Christmas Eve. Residents spent the holiday without...

A former health official's family says he wanted to clear his name before he died. The relatives of Brian Hlongwa, the late Gauteng Health MEC, are pushing back against a corruption report from the Special Investigating Unit, stating he always intended to prove his innocence in court. Hlongwa...

A woman got stabbed, and her dog was killed during a hike on Signal Hill. The violent robbery happened on the lower slopes above Cape Town's Noon Gun area, leaving the victim with a non-life-threatening arm wound and overwhelming grief after the attacker also murdered her pet. Police are hunting...

NVIDIA's next Feynman chips might stack LPU units using advanced bonding tech. An expert theory suggests the company could use TSMC's hybrid bonding, similar to AMD's 3D V-Cache, to attach separate LPU dies packed with SRAM onto a main A16 process compute die. This move follows NVIDIA's IP deal...