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The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo just hit 55 years of operation and wrapped up its anniversary celebrations with two exhibitions running until mid-January. The spot has been pushing Zimbabwean art since it started as the Rhodes Centenary Gallery back in 1957, and they're showing off...

Freedom Murechu is running as the Zanu-PF pick for Nkulumane Constituency against eight other candidates, and he says the opposition MPs who held the seat for two decades basically ghosted residents instead of fixing water problems or dealing with trash piling up for months. The former...

Gary Porter from the Stormers is apparently about to join Zimbabwe's national rugby squad through his mom's Bulawayo bloodline, and the timing lines up perfectly since the Sables just qualified for the 2027 Rugby World Cup after sitting out for 36 years. The 29-year-old lock is built like a...

Umguza Rural Development Council agronomist Leo Maphosa says the rainy season creates perfect conditions for crops to explode with growth, but it also brings flooding and disease pressure that can wreck entire harvests if farmers slack off. He told reporters that growers in Matabeleland need to...

Heany Junction villages in Umguza District are dealing with a serious spike in domestic violence because bootleg alcohol called njengu is getting sold everywhere by locals at all hours. Patience Ncube Sibanda told a crowd at the 16 Days of Activism Against GBV event that her husband gets violent...

Bulawayo City Council shuffled around who gets to hand out land after developers kept complaining that the Town Planning Department was basically gatekeeping everything. Director Wisdom Siziba used to run the whole show, but the new policy moves major investment decisions over to City Economic...

Shurugwi Town Council secretary Archibald Ncube says water infrastructure is basically falling apart while the population keeps climbing toward 30,000 people by the end of the decade. The small mining town held a planning session to map out priorities that match up with the government's National...

Mpopoma Sports Academy from Bulawayo is heading to Harare to play in the CAF Girls Integrated Football Tournament, which brings together eight under-17 squads from across Southern Africa. James Rugwevera started the whole thing a decade back when they were still scraping by on borrowed fields...

Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo is getting ready for the first-ever Miss Urban Culture and Mr Urban Culture competition, which basically flips the Miss Rural Zimbabwe concept for township kids. Sipho Mazibuko is running the whole thing, and he wants contestants between 18 and 30 who are single...

Small-scale gold miners in Zimbabwe are basically carrying the country's entire mineral output on their backs, but they're doing it with zero safety nets or insurance coverage. These guys pump out over 60 percent of the nation's gold, yet insurance companies won't touch them because most...

A driver for Ingwebu Breweries in Bulawayo got hit with fines totaling $260 after getting caught siphoning diesel twice from company trucks. Mengezi Mnkandla, who's 23 and lives in the Hillcrest suburb, admitted to stealing 85 liters of fuel over two separate incidents, and the court also...

Nkosiphile Ncube from Mawabeni Village in Umzingwane District is training as a mortuary attendant at United Bulawayo Hospitals after becoming a mom twice before turning 22. The 25-year-old is raising two kids alone while her mother helps cover the daily commute costs from their rural home. She...

Zimbabwe's athletics had a pretty solid run this year, with the National Athletics Association crediting better coaching programs for the turnaround. Director Lisimati Phakamile ran some certification courses in Bulawayo and said the country got more athletes into World Championships while...

Sweden announced it's pulling development funding from Zimbabwe and four other nations to redirect cash toward Ukraine instead. The Nordic government plans to axe aid going to Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique, Liberia, and Bolivia over the next couple of years. Benjamin Dousa, who handles...

Washington Navaya from TelOne got named Soccer Star after banging in 17 goals to lead the league, and he picked up his hardware at a Delta Beverages event in Harare. Scottland FC defender Kevin Moyo came second, while Simba Bhora's Emmanuel Ziocha landed third. Tonderai Ndiraya won Coach honors...

Harare-based financial services outfit Bard Santner wrapped up the year, saying things went better than expected despite tight liquidity and economic chaos across Zimbabwe. CEO Senziwani Sikhosana and executives Tatenda Hungwe and Lucia Chingwaru ran the show while the company pushed into asset...

UK electric car sales basically flatlined last month, with the weakest bump in nearly two years after Rachel Reeves dropped plans for a pay-per-mile tax on battery vehicles. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said registrations crawled up just 3.6% compared to the year before...

Ocado scored a $350 million payout from Kroger after the American grocery chain ditched another robot warehouse in Charlotte and admitted three other automated facilities flopped hard. The British tech company's stock bounced up briefly before settling higher, but CEO Tim Steiner is still...

AJ Bell CEO Michael Summersgill said pension savers yanked roughly £600 million out of their accounts because they thought Rachel Reeves was about to wreck the tax-free lump sum rules. Thousands of people over 55 pulled cash during September and October, expecting the Treasury to cap the 25%...

UK companies axed workers faster than at any point since the pandemic started, with private-sector jobs dropping 1.8% as Rachel Reeves kept everyone guessing about tax hikes for months before her second budget. Bank of England numbers show bosses are planning to cut another 0.7% of their...