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SAFA is about to get absolutely paid. Bafana Bafana qualifying for the 2026 World Cup means a guaranteed payout from FIFA, starting at over one hundred seventy-five million rand. The football body's president, Gianni Infantino, confirmed the total prize pool is way bigger than last time. South...

ZIMRA just dropped a new policy on tax clearance certificates, and business owners are absolutely losing it. Starting late December, those ITF263 forms will only be good for one month instead of lasting longer. This comes from some public notice. The whole point is to force constant monthly...

Zimbabwe's tax authority just dropped a brutal new rule on businesses. Starting soon, a valid Tax Clearance Certificate only last one month. To get an automated renewal, companies must have every single tax return filed and every penny owed paid by the 27th of each month. Any slip-up blocks the...

A viral stat claims Orlando Pirates is sending more players to the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations than any other club. An analyst posted that the South African side will have nine guys at the tournament in Morocco. That list puts them ahead of Egyptian giant Al Ahly, which reportedly has eight...

That big amapiano artist, Young Stunna, just canceled a bunch of his December shows. He says he hurt his knee in some incident with a promoter out in East London. He called the promoter's conduct unprofessional and negligent. The injury means he cannot get on stage right now. It messed up his...

Parliament officials had to address a weird situation after someone found ritual items outside the new building. Deputy Speaker Tsitsi Gezi told everyone to stay calm, claiming a mentally unwell person was responsible. She said lawmakers are safe, and the thing is under control. But that...

Dynamos FC got hit with a forty-five-hundred-dollar fine from the league. The penalty is for delaying the start of a cup final against Triangle United. The whole mess happened because Dynamos refused to play using only the opponent's soccer balls. The club's technical staff also got fined three...

That celebrity couple, Gail Mabalane and Kabelo, seems to really make their marriage work. Their whole thing is built on shared faith and being actual friends. They manage to handle their public lives while keeping their family life pretty quiet and grounded. Fans see the highlights online...

The government is doubling down on clearing out illegal settlements nationwide. Information Minister Jenfan Muswere announced this aggressive stance after the cabinet reviewed the Willdale Farm eviction. They called those settlements a menace and vowed to identify and clear more sites, aiming to...

A police commissioner just declared that drivers here have no idea how to operate a car after sunset. The ZRP spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi, said the problem is so bad that it demands a full rewrite of the national driving curriculum. He blames driving schools that only operate in...

New info is out about the murder of DJ Warras, real name Warrick Stock. The shooting happened in daylight downtown. A witness said they found him on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds. He was hit four times in the chest and once in the chin. The witness described three men approaching...

The family of Warrick Stock, known as DJ Warras, has spoken after his killing. They confirmed the media personality was brutally murdered in Johannesburg. In a statement, they described feeling heartbroken and shocked, completely devastated by the loss. They remembered Stock as the central...

A fuss around the South African team kicked off after coach Hugo Broos went off about a young player, Mfundo Vilakazi Mbokazi. Broos questioned the kid's professional drive and publicly called out his agent. This got worse when reports said Mbokazi showed up late for the national camp. For...

ZESA says the lights should mostly stay on over the holidays and during the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament. Their spokesperson, George Manyaya, claims power generation has been better this year. He credits fixes at the Hwange plant, along with solid output from Kariba Power Station...

They just opened a bigger, tech-heavy Norton Toll Plaza. The Transport Minister, Felix Mhona, said it is supposed to fight traffic jams and make roads safer. Cash from the tolls will supposedly get pumped back into fixing highways and bridges. This is not just for collecting money, though. They...

ARDA, that agricultural authority, is going huge on summer crops. Their plan covers a hundred thousand hectares. The goal is to shore up the national food supply for next season. The breakdown involves thirty thousand hectares of irrigated corn and sixty thousand dedicated to traditional grains...

Man, remember Redfall. Another total flop that got its studio axed, just like that Concord mess. The director, Harvey Smith, recently said the whole thing might have gone differently. He claims that the big final patch, update 1.4, basically fixed the game. Launching with that version could have...

Zapu, the opposition party, just marked 64 years since it started. Its president, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, called the entire history one long stretch of getting persecuted. He said the party, founded back in 1961, faced it from colonial rulers and then, way worse, from Robert Mugabe's Zanu government...

Esrom Nyandoro, that old Mamelodi Sundowns legend, just called Tinashe Nengomasha his best midfield partner ever. These two guys, who used to battle it out in the PSL for Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs, ended up forming Zimbabwe's legendary engine room. They were the key reason the national squad...

Looks like Highlanders FC is doing some serious managerial shuffling. Their new head coach is supposedly Thabo Senong, a guy from South Africa who used to run the Lesotho national team and their U-20 squad. He is not working alone. Club icon Benjani Mwaruwari is being slotted in as technical...