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The Biden administration shoved Zimbabwe into the worst tier of its AI chip export rules, which means the country gets zero access to fancy Nvidia chips like the H100 and A100 that everyone uses for serious AI work. A single H100 runs about 31 grand, and building something like xAI's Colossus...

Zimbabwe is cracking down on drivers who mess with their phones behind the wheel, and cops in Harare have been handing out $30 fines like candy. Deputy Minister Joshua Sacco and Harare Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Charles Tawengwa showed up at a workshop put together by the Traffic Safety...

The UK government dropped 283 million pounds to train builders, coders, and engineers, but businesspeople are saying it is basically pointless. Around 100 million is going to metro mayors and local leaders to expand construction courses at colleges with a goal of getting 60,000 extra...

UK companies hit the brakes on hiring for the second straight month, as job postings tanked by over 14 percent between October and November, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. The drop is pretty wild considering retail and hospitality usually ramp up before the holidays...

A former government economist is calling out the UK Treasury for some wildly optimistic math around non-dom tax reforms. Chris Walker from ChamberlainWalker says the government is betting on nearly 16 billion pounds showing up over three years from wealthy people bringing overseas money back to...

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett just made 59 lawyers into partners, which is their biggest promotion class ever. The New York firm bumped up way more people than last year, when only 44 got promoted, and nearly half of the new partners are women. Most of them work out of New York, but they have also...

Spanish law firm Pérez-Llorca bumped 12 lawyers to partner across Madrid, Mexico City, and Bogotá while tapping corporate attorney José Luis Romeu to run its London office. The promotions hit corporate hard with six new partners, while tax grabbed two spots, and the rest got split between...

Securitize grabbed Jerome Roche as its new general counsel after the spot sat empty since Tom Eidt bailed earlier in the year. Roche comes from PayPal, where he ran legal for digital assets and helped launch their PayPal USD stablecoin while racking up over two decades of experience across...

Eugene Modise grabbed another term leading the ANC's Greater Tshwane Region without anyone challenging him at the party conference near Pretoria, even though fraud accusations keep hanging over his head from a security contract mess. The deputy mayor and finance boss got hit with a forensic...

Gauteng's education department says almost every Grade 1 and Grade 8 kid finally scored a school spot for next year, with over 342,000 learners placed out of roughly 358,000 applicants by mid-December. About 15,000 students still need slots, mostly Grade 8 kids in packed districts like...

Gauteng High Court judges tossed the Information Regulator's attempt at blocking matric results from appearing in newspapers, ruling that listing exam numbers instead of names does not violate privacy laws under POPIA. The full bench called the regulator's argument about students figuring out...

Deputy Police Minister Polly Boshielo rolled through Mankweng Police Station in Limpopo's Capricorn District to check how cops are handling holiday crime surges and road safety during festive operations that run through mid-January. Provincial Commissioner Thembi Hadebe and Transport MEC Violet...

People living in Tumahole finally got taps working after going two decades without reliable water, thanks to Municipal Manager Futhuli Mothamaha pushing upgrades through the Free State township. The pilot borehole project in the Mandela section brought immediate relief alongside a nearly...

Johannesburg cops bagged 173 drunk drivers between early and mid-December while running Tshela Thupa operations meant to clean up roads during the holiday season, when traffic gets wild. Police Chief Patrick Jaca said the weekly haul should freak out anyone who cares about staying alive, and...

Executors defending Richard Foxton's estate are backing a property handover worth 10 million rand to Thuli Madonsela after the late PR guy switched his bequest from cash to a Cape Town golf estate house months before dying. His four kids are beefing with the former Public Protector over which...

Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba heads back to check on the Morebeng-to-Sekgosese road mess for the third time after eight years of contractors flaking and cash vanishing into thin air. The 32-kilometer stretch was supposed to connect eight villages with proper tar and flood bridges by 2022, but...

Two dudes running blue-light robbery schemes got smoked during a shootout with cops on the R59 near Parys after refusing to pull over when a joint police squad tried stopping their white Golf fitted with fake emergency equipment. Officers from Gauteng's Tactical Response Team and other units...

President Cyril Ramaphosa heads to the Ncome Museum in KwaZulu-Natal's Nquthu area to give a speech about keeping the country glued together instead of letting old wounds fester. The whole thing happens at the Battle of Blood River heritage spot, where Voortrekker forces clashed with Zulu...

The Collen Mashawana Foundation threw its third elderly Christmas bash at Thohoyandou Stadium, and over 3,000 seniors from 60 Limpopo villages showed up for food, grooming services, meds, blankets, wheelchairs, and holiday hampers. Traditional leader Thovhele Gole Mphaphuli and Thulamela Mayor...

President Ramaphosa gets the Madlanga Commission interim findings handed straight to him without any public release, and the decision has people sketching about transparency since the probe digs into criminal gangs allegedly running wild inside South African police departments, intelligence...