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Snoop Dogg and his cousin Daz Dillinger are beefing over publishing rights connected to their Death Row Records catalog, and Daz says he got kicked off the label after refusing to hand over ownership of his tracks. He went off on YouTube claiming Snoop and the team tried sneaking trademark moves...

Zimbabwe just locked in Marian Marinica as head coach, and the guy comes with street cred after dragging Malawi into the AFCON knockout rounds when nobody expected them to survive the group stage. He told the media that the squad is dealing with minor injury stuff, but the medical staff has it...

Kaizer Chiefs basically became the unofficial pipeline for Zimbabwean players trying to level up their careers, and guys like Khama Billiat, Willard Katsande, Knowledge Musona, and Teenage Hadebe all used Naturena as a launchpad to bigger opportunities in Europe and MLS. The club kept pulling...

Hamilton Masakadza just stepped into the match referee game for a Pro50 Championship fixture between the Mountaineers and Eagles, but Zimbabwean cricket fans are absolutely dragging him online for hoarding positions. The former national captain turned cricket director is catching heat from...

Zimbabwe's education minister Torerayi Moyo dropped the news that every kid in primary and secondary school is getting a tablet or laptop next year through a nationwide rollout, and the government already grabbed over 15,000 internet kits, with 9,000 heading to schools soon. He announced Hippo...

Walter Musona from the Zimbabwe Warriors is sitting out AFCON after ZIFA said he skipped fitness protocols following a hamstring issue during a match against Algeria. The association claims the Scottland FC captain bailed on training before the Qatar game, and they wanted medical scans that...

SASSA beneficiaries are staring down a brutal stretch between payments this festive season because the calendar created a five-week gap instead of the usual four, and advocacy groups are basically sounding the alarm that loan sharks are about to have a field day. The agency confirmed that over...

South African lawmakers just torpedoed a proposal from opposition leader Mmusi Maimane that would have ditched the 30% minimum pass mark and replaced it with 50%, and the ANC and DA teamed up to kill it while the EFF, IFP, and ActionSA backed the change. Maimane went off about how the low bar is...

A Zambian influencer who goes by One Boss Lady got hit with 18 months behind bars after getting arrested at the airport when she flew back from New York for her grandmother's funeral. Ethel Chisono Edwards basically got nailed under these new cyber laws for talking trash about President Hakainde...

A guy from Kwekwe is sitting in jail after prosecutors say he threw sulphuric acid on his wife's face when they got into it at home. Shakemore Manyepa, who's 30, showed up to court after the whole thing went down, and authorities are saying he came back drunk, started torching groceries he'd...

Zimbabwe's economy is apparently hitting different this year, with projections showing 6.6% growth that beats most of Sub-Saharan Africa, and the World Bank just dropped its latest report saying the bounce back comes from better farming, metal production, and service sectors. Eneida Fernandes...

Zimbabwe officials doubled down on their disability inclusion push during an event at Danhiko Industrial Training College in Harare tied to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Kundayi Kamutseta from the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education said the government wants to expand...

Geo-Pomona Holdings dropped off a bunch of new garbage trucks in Zimbabwe to help clean up Harare, which has been dealing with trash piling up everywhere. The company CEO, Delish Nguwaya, said the fresh equipment adds 25 compactors, 16 tippers, 10 skip loaders, and 5 street sweepers to their...

Nine students in Harare got blocked from taking their ZIMSEC O-Level exam because the school decided their haircuts violated dress code rules. Education Minister Torerayi Moyo said the kids showed up for their Family and Religious Studies Paper 2 test but got turned away even after they fixed...

Zimbabwe's major Christian groups are pushing back against proposed abortion law changes that would let people terminate pregnancies up to 20 weeks without major restrictions. The religious coalition says the Medical Services Bill amendments would trash constitutional protections for fetuses and...

Zimbabwe VP Constantino Chiwenga told an African corrections meeting in Harare that the country plans to roll out a revamped parole program next year to fix prison overcrowding and shift toward rehabilitation over punishment. The old setup barely covered anyone besides dying inmates, but the...

FC Platinum grabbed Joel Luphahla as their next manager after Norman Mapeza bounced from the Zvishavane club. The former Zimbabwe player just wrapped up his stint with Simba Bhora, where he took them to third place behind champions Scottland FC. Both sides agreed to split when his contract ran...

A three-year-old named Keila Nkomo from Cowdray Park in Bulawayo drowned after slipping into a Blair toilet pit that had filled up with rainwater. The kid was messing around outside with another child when she fell into the roughly 2.5-meter hole. Her aunt pulled her out and tried to help, but...

An engineer at Leonardo UK named Maria Kelly got her discrimination case tossed after she complained about trans women using the bathroom at work. The tribunal decided the defense contractor handled everything legally when they let transgender employees pick their facilities, and the judge said...

Jaguar Land Rover kicked out their design boss, Gerry McGovern, after he ran that wild pink rebrand campaign that had zero cars in it. The 69-year-old got walked out of the building right after a new CEO from Tata Motors took over, and people are saying his fashion-forward aesthetic with angular...