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Border officials at Beitbridge just fired up a joint traffic system between Zimbabwe and South Africa to handle the holiday chaos until mid-January. The crossing is basically the busiest land port in sub-Saharan Africa, and it gets slammed when half a million people roll through during the...

Cops in Zimbabwe say human trafficking numbers are spiking hard after scammers started catfishing desperate job hunters with fake overseas gigs. Commissioner Paul Nyathi said sketchy recruitment operations are using social media to promise fat paychecks in South Africa, the Middle East, and...

A cop from Bulawayo got busted with three other guys after they allegedly tried robbing someone in Victoria Falls. Detective Constable Wellington Ndoro from CID Nkulumane showed up in court with Felias Mvula, Julius Mugwagwa, and Silence Kwangwa, facing attempted robbery charges. They targeted...

Zimbabwe beat Kenya 53-44 at the African Netball Championships in Malawi and punched their ticket to the semis. The Gems grabbed second place in Group B, and they're facing South Africa next after the neighbors topped Group A. Assistant coach Pepetua Siyachitema said going against the top-ranked...

Gweru cops just dropped a ban on carrying machetes, knives, axes, and other sketchy stuff in public for the next three months. Chief Superintendent Leon Marongedze signed off on the order after violent crime got out of hand across neighborhoods like Mkoba, Ridgemont, and the industrial zones...

Zimbabwe rugby boss Pieter Benade is laser-focused on making noise at the 2027 Rugby World Cup after his Sables squad locked down their spot. The 43-year-old coach admitted he grew up watching England on TV back in the day, and he'll face them in Pool F alongside Wales and Tonga. He said the...

Zimbabwe's top chiefs just gave their blessing to Zanu-PF's whole 2030 scheme that would let President Mnangagwa stick around past what the constitution allows, and Chief Mtshane Khumalo said traditional leaders have zero reason to push back since the ruling party came up with the idea first...

Some business dude named Cosmas Mushininga, who runs tech stuff for Zanu-PF in Harare, just dropped eight computers, plus a printer and wifi gear, on one of the party district offices. The guy already gave laptops and internet equipment worth 12,000 bucks to the main provincial headquarters...

Zanu-PF leadership shut down some power grab from Manicaland province after they tried sneaking presidential adviser Paul Tungwarara onto the central committee without following the rulebook. National commissar Munyaradzi Machacha sent a letter killing the whole thing because the provincial crew...

Candidates fighting over the Nkulumane seat went head-to-head at a public forum where Zanu-PF's Freedom Murechu claimed his party connections would unlock government money for local projects, while independent challenger Rodney Jele fired back that centralized control from Harare killed urban...

Zanu-PF's commissariat boss Munyaradzi Machacha says the ruling party pulled 437,000 people away from opposition groups through some campaign that tells former rivals to come back home. The party set up a whole department just to process everyone bailing on the other side, and Machacha wants...

Some guy working to get independent candidate Mbuso Fuzwayo elected in the Nkulumane area got threats from what appears to be a Zanu-PF supporter who rolled up to his house and said he would torch the place. Colbert Mahonondo was putting up campaign materials when the person showed up in a...

Zimbabwe has been sitting on roughly 85 million dollars it yanked from government worker paychecks to cover microfinance loans, and that pile has been collecting dust for five months straight. CBZ affiliate Red Sphere Finance stopped issuing any new loans to civil servants after the government...

Masvingo cops grabbed some Mirror reporters who went to check out water pipe damage at a disputed property tied to provincial minister Ezra Chadzamira, but the trespassing charges flopped after a three-hour detention. Police then pivoted to investigating whether the newspaper's Toyota Aqua...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa just hooked up the Zanu PF old-timers with 10 Ford Everest SUVs at some ceremony, and he threw in laptops plus Apple gear for the party propaganda crew. The Elders Council has former bigwigs like Sydney Sekeramayi running point, and they basically...

Zimbabwe wants cops to actually crack down on people messing with their phones behind the wheel after way too many crashes got blamed on distracted drivers. Deputy Minister Joshua Sacco and a bunch of transport stakeholders met up in Harare for a workshop thrown by the Traffic Safety Council and...

Some dude in Zimbabwe basically ransacked his brother's place and grabbed a grinding mill plus four animals after finding out the guy knocked up his wife, but Chief Makoni's court said that whole vigilante compensation thing was bogus. Michael Dzomba got dragged to the community court by his...

Nicholas Zakaria, the guy who fronted Khiama Boys and went by Madzibaba, died from diabetes complications at a hospital in Chitungwiza at 69 years old. His funeral is happening at some family spot in Chiweshe, and the entire Zimbabwe music scene showed up at his place to pay respects. Alick...

Zimbabwe bumped 28 army guys from Major to Lieutenant Colonel at some ceremony in Harare, and the brass made it clear this was about future potential rather than just past performance. Brigadier General Christopher Rangwana told the newly promoted officers that President Mnangagwa picked them...

A Bulawayo councillor from Zanu-PF named Josiah Mutangi got nailed for scamming street vendors out of their cash by promising them legal spots to sell stuff, and the judge handed him 490 hours of community service at the local cop shop. His partner in crime, Janet Zhou, pulled 450 hours at a...