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Swedish eyewear designer Anna-Karin Karlsson hit up the University of Lagos Faculty of Creative Arts for a session set up by her Nigerian retail partner, Polo Avenue. Students threw together a wild performance with music and visuals before she broke down her journey into luxury design and...

Amma Abena dropped her second EP and basically turned it into a seven-track therapy session about whether any of us actually know where we're headed. Paddle to Your Resting Place kicks off with someone literally sprinting toward an unclear finish line while wondering if heaven even wants them...

President Mnangagwa gave Emmanuel Matatu his full General stripes and told him to keep tabs on global security shifts since warfare keeps changing with tech advances and terrorism threats. The commander-in-chief said Matatu needs to transform the Zimbabwe Defence Forces into a world-class outfit...

John Muyambo's kid, Nigel Tendai, is planning to keep the legendary drummer's whole vibe alive after the old man eventually hangs it up. The son works as a prison officer and plays drums for the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service Band, and he's teaming up with colleague Mthokozisi Ncube...

Spirit of Praise packed out ZIEC Hall 3 in Bulawayo with over 5,000 gospel heads showing up for the Next Level Tour and the local drop of their Volume 11 project. The South African crew brought heavy hitters like Ayanda Ntanzi, Dumi Mkokstad, Zaza Mokhethi, and Sindi Ntombela, while Zimbabwean...

Police locked up two security guards after a fatal shooting near DGL5 Mine in Bubi District left a 31-year-old man dead and another person wounded. Thabo Ngwenya got hit three times in the chest while walking past the mine to hit up a shop, and Nkosikhona Moyo caught a bullet in the arm after...

Bulawayo threw its annual Carols by Candlelight thing at the Amphitheatre, and around 500 people showed up to kick off the holiday season with singing and charity vibes. Deputy Mayor Edwin Ndlovu repped for Mayor David Coltart and mentioned the tradition has been running for almost 70 years...

The head honcho from the World Intellectual Property Organization landed in Zimbabwe for the first time and promised to help craft a national IP strategy. Director General Daren Tang met with President Mnangagwa at State House in Harare, and they talked about protecting homegrown innovation...

Bulawayo poultry farmers are getting squeezed by a day-old chick shortage right before the holiday rush, and some shady suppliers are allegedly making smallholder operations buy feed just to access the birds. The Competition and Tariffs Commission called out the practice as a market distortion...

This entrepreneur-slash-academic guy, Tedious Ncube, wrote about how China basically flipped the script on the whole development model that Western powers spent decades pushing on everyone else. He points out that lifting 800 million people out of poverty while building advanced tech systems on...

Kelvin Kaindu just wrapped the wildest coaching year after bouncing from Highlanders to Dynamos mid-season and somehow pulling off a cup win. The guy started with Bosso but ditched them when things got messy, and everyone figured his career was cooked. Instead, he kept Dynamos from getting...

Chicken Inn is riding high after three of their players made the Warriors provisional squad for the Afcon camp. Captain Xolani Ndlovu, vice-captain Donovan Bernard, and midfielder Joseph Tulani got the nod alongside other home-based talent like Andrew Mbeba, Washington Navaya, and Kevin Moyo...

Chief Mtshane Khumalo shut down claims that traditional leaders were asking for crazy money and gear to help with the Gukurahundi hearings. The National Chiefs Council president said if any chief actually had welfare complaints, they know the proper channels to use, and running to reporters is...

ZITF Company is gearing up for another packed calendar after launching three fresh shows this year: a livestock thing, an education expo, and a climate-focused business event. The organization runs the biggest trade shows in Zimbabwe from its Bulawayo base, and marketing guy Thandolwenkosi Nkomo...

The Zimbabwe National Army just graduated 174 new soldiers after they wrapped up three months of training at a base in Bulawayo, and the group was mostly women at 96 compared to 78 guys. Two people out of the original 176 recruits bailed before finishing the program that covered everything from...

Some legal expert dropped a whole essay about how families fall apart after parents die without making a plan, and the main fix is setting up a trust through a notary who can register it officially. The piece walks through a scenario where four kids inherit a house and a small business but end...

Clothing makers and retailers are begging the government to pump the brakes on a massive tariff hike for imported fabric until researchers finish studying the whole cotton industry situation. Finance officials want to jack up duties from 10 percent to 40 percent plus an extra charge per...

The ruling party candidate running for a Bulawayo seat is blasting the opposition for allegedly ghosting constituents after getting elected and letting basic services fall apart over the past twenty years. The guy promises to drill new boreholes with solar power, fix the broken street lighting...

A woman from Mufakose got diagnosed with kidney failure after taking medical tests for a cruise ship gig she ended up not getting, and her younger brother ended up donating one of his organs to save her life. The 32-year-old patient needed dialysis sessions multiple times per week while her...

A debt collector from Bulawayo got busted after pretending to be an attorney and scamming someone out of 3,500 bucks. Simbarashe Dzingisayi told a guy with pending civil cases that he worked at a law firm and could handle his defense, then collected payment in chunks while dodging every single...