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Filabusi rapper Sindiso Moyo is dropping a recording studio in his hometown while prepping for a festival appearance with DJ Tira from South Africa. The guy rebranded from Jaycee Rapaddict to Mr Vhuu after locals started calling him that, and he wants the new spot to help artists who never got...

Zimbabwe locks in half a million bucks just for showing up at AFCON, and CAF dropped a $32 million prize pool that rewards teams whether they flame out early or push deep into the knockout rounds. The Warriors, under captain Marvelous Nakamba, could bump that to $700k for finishing third in the...

A weather observer in Bulawayo got hit with the realization that summer basically sneaks up on people down there. The jacaranda trees dropped their purple flowers everywhere, and the guy's mom in Botswana finally noticed the same thing after years of walking past them without paying attention...

The Rural Infrastructure Development Agency dropped over 150 boreholes across Matabeleland South this year while fixing up 600 kilometers of back roads and throwing together 14 bridges. Agency boss Christopher Shumba said the whole push fits with government development plans that target...

Benjamin Follet-Smith topped the Zimbabwean crew at the Alfred Dunhill Championship after finishing tied for 56th at Royal Johannesburg's East Course, and rain cut the whole thing short from four rounds down to three. The guy wrapped up five under par alongside countrymen Kieran Vincent and...

Sikandar Raza carried Sharjah Warriorz to their first league win after dropping three of their opening four games, and the Zimbabwe captain grabbed player of the match honors with bat plus ball against the Mumbai Indians Emirates. The squad posted 174 runs with Raza chipping in 29 before he...

Kwekwe officials are locked in a $50 million spending plan for next year that bumps things up from the current $47 million setup, and the whole thing needs sign-off from the national government before it kicks in. Council rep Alex Senge laid out the numbers at a town meeting, and the budget...

Matabeleland South's provincial minister, Albert Nguluvhe, wants locals stepping up to handle gender-based violence after warnings that the problem tanks economic progress and messes with Zimbabwe's development targets. His deputy read remarks at Marubamba Shopping Centre during anti-GBV...

Police in Guruve are hunting Anymore Zvitsva after five relatives got killed at Ona Farm, and cops think he might be behind other murders that have been hitting the area since October. Drones and special units are searching forests and mountains where the guy apparently went to ground. The...

Women in Ilanda are running night patrols after the suburb got tired of break-ins and petty theft. Sheba Makanyanga, who sits on the local watch committee, helped organize the whole thing after people realized staying quiet about crime was getting them nowhere. The group uses phones and...

A Bulawayo guy got six years for holding cocaine and weed after cops busted him and his wife during a traffic stop. Darian-Lee Kevin Lloyd Jackson from West Somerton will do four years behind bars after the magistrate knocked off two for good behavior conditions, while his wife, Lakin Lee...

A Bulawayo woman in her sixties dodged jail after whacking her cousin with a crutch during an argument about property. Karen Lusinga got four months suspended for three years after admitting to the assault at her Emganwini place, and the sentence only sticks if she stays clean. The whole thing...

People going through Beitbridge are hyped about how fast things move after Zimbabwe dropped serious cash on upgrades. The $300 million overhaul cut wait times way down, and pedestrians get through in half an hour versus the three-plus hours they used to deal with. Cars with proper paperwork...

Bulawayo's jazz fest got pushed back from its restaurant venue slot, and the organizers say they want to make the whole thing better for everyone involved. Selmor Mtukudzi, Victor Kunonga, Jeys Marabani, Mahlaba, and The Outfit Band with Mimmie Tarukwana were all lined up to perform. People who...

Zimbabwe's ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera says the country's first National Development Strategy helped push through a bunch of tech sector upgrades. The framework, which ran until 2025, set up policies and reforms aimed at hitting middle-income status by 2030. She talked about this at a World...

Lieutenant General Victor Khrenin from Belarus met with Zimbabwe's Defense Minister Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri at Defence House in Harare. The Belarusian official brought along his deputy minister, Major General Andrey Burdyko, who handles logistics and oversees the armed forces, plus some other...

Police in Nabweru grabbed nine South Sudanese people after their househelp turned up dead with nasty head wounds inside a residence in Wakiso district. A clinical officer got called to treat the maid, but she was already gone when the medic showed up, and her body vanished before cops could...

Uganda's military finally copped to snatching a Catholic priest after his diocese spent a week hunting through police stations trying to find him. Father Deusdedit Ssekabira got grabbed by armed guys from his NGO office in Masaka City, and the army stayed quiet until Bishop Severus Jjumba...

A Ugandan court told the civil aviation authority to cough up twenty-six million shillings after they fired a security guy who busted someone smuggling rhino horns through the airport. Arnold Olweny spotted a sketchy bag back in 2017, called wildlife officials, and helped them catch a passenger...

Electro-Harmonix just brought a lost Big Muff design to life after JHS Pedals guy Josh Scott and artist Daniel Danger dug up an old schematic that creator Bob Myer never actually produced back in the late seventies. The Big Muff Pi 2 runs on dual op-amps instead of the usual transistor setup...