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Some guy from Plumtree got locked up after accusing his folks of using his blood for witchcraft and screaming insults at them in their house. Panashe Banda showed up at his dad's place and went off about getting cursed by his parents, which led them to file a police report that got him arrested...

This human rights outfit called Ibhetshu LikaZulu went to court over Zanu PF, telling Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to push constitutional changes that would keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa around until 2030. Secretary-General Mbuso Fuzwayo said the party resolution from last year was...

Some dude from Mpoengs kept grabbing his neighbor without permission and landed himself in serious trouble after she finally reported him to the authorities. Christopher Mguni got caught fondling the woman's thighs in her kitchen earlier this year, and she smacked him before telling his mom what...

A village leader from Mushumbi Pools got tossed in remand after cops busted him for allegedly running a cattle-theft ring. Isaac Svinugwa, who's 45, got arrested alongside three other guys when one of them ratted him out as the mastermind behind multiple stock-theft incidents around the area...

A property company called Craft Holdings just handed out ten serviced residential plots to people with disabilities in Kadoma's Holyland suburb, and they threw in approved building plans for each recipient. Minister Marian Chombo showed up and praised the move as lining up with the government's...

Zimbabwe just set up this new complaints body called ZICC to handle beef with cops, military, spies, and prison guards, and retired judge Webster Chinamora says they're rolling out provincial offices next year to make it easier for regular people to file grievances. The whole point is giving...

A Harare judge tossed fraud charges against Aisha and Clark Makoni after prosecutors tried pinning a ZWL137 million theft on them related to ex-Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono's company, Valley Lodge. Justice Regis Dembure said the case was totally broken because the state never actually...

Five workers at the Harare municipality used fake super-user credentials to steal over ZiG500,000 from city accounts across just a few days, and they hit around 40 different client accounts during the digital heist. Mayor Jacob Mafume called out the IT manager at a council meeting and demanded a...

American televangelist Benny Hinn rolled through Harare for his prosperity gospel healing crusade thing and even got a meeting with the president, which pretty much sums up how Pentecostal churches are dominating Zimbabwe right now. Mugove Chikomba from the Hyatt Regency hotel thinks younger...

Some analyst from Kiwoon Securities thinks Samsung could pull in somewhere between $62 billion and $69 billion in operating profit next year, and the company has a bunch of different revenue streams that could make it happen. The Korean giant needs to get its foundry operation turning a profit...

Some absolute madlad leaked a 2,002-watt extreme overclocking BIOS that was supposed to stay locked down for the Chinese ASUS GeForce Astral RTX 5090 D variant, and people are already flashing it onto their regular cards for benchmark bragging rights. One guy slapped it onto his GIGABYTE RTX...

RAM prices going absolutely crazy has tanked motherboard sales by like 40 to 50 percent compared to last year, and the big vendors like ASUS and MSI are getting wrecked during what should be their best season. DDR5 kits are selling for two to four times what they used to cost, which means people...

Apple apparently cracked the code on making a foldable phone without that annoying crease everyone hates, and the thing just needs some final tweaks before factories start pumping them out. The company spent five years working on this design, and they're looking at shipping somewhere between 7...

Epic dropped the new Fortnite chapter after over 10 million people showed up for the last season's finale event, and players get to storm surf onto a totally different map instead of using the battle bus. The Golden Coast island has six named spots to hit up, like Wonkeeland and Sandy Strip...

A Chinese company called Xiang Dixian dropped its Fuxi A0 graphics card at some tech expo in Chengdu, and the thing runs on Imagination Technologies' DXD architecture built on 5-nanometer chips. The card hits ray tracing and upscaling tech while supposedly matching performance from Western GPUs...

AMD just leaked its own upcoming chip after the Ryzen 7 9850X3D showed up on its official support page. The processor packs eight cores with 96 megabytes of cache and hits 5.6 gigahertz, which beats the 9800X3D by 400 megahertz. Gamers who grabbed the current model might feel some regret since...

A birthday party for a kid turned into an absolute nightmare when a gunman opened fire at a Stockton restaurant and left four people dead. Another ten got hurt in the attack, and the victims were a mix of grown-ups and children. Cops still haven't caught whoever did this, but they think someone...

Tanzania is sorting through proposals from five international crews looking to drop almost a trillion shillings on rebuilding the old Sabasaba trade fairgrounds into a year-round economic destination. TanTrade boss Latifa Khamis said the agency is checking whether investors from China, India...

Simba SC is heading to Mali to take on Stade Malien after losing their opener 1-0 to Petro Atletico, and coach Dimitar Pantev says the squad is ditching the false-nine setup to actually convert chances this time. Singida Black Stars is hosting Stellenbosch FC at their spot in Zanzibar following...

Tanzania used to be big on colonial-era sports like cricket, hockey, golf, and snooker back when club memberships meant something and people watched tennis matches while sipping drinks on verandas. The country even sent a hockey squad to the Moscow Olympics in 1980, which was wild for a nation...