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Cops say your illegal New Year's fireworks will get you arrested. Zimbabwe police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi warned the public that setting off fireworks or firecrackers without a permit from local authorities is a criminal offense. He stated police will be cracking down on any...

A South African mayor is catching serious heat for hiring a guy from Zimbabwe to fix the water system. Polokwane Mayor John Mpe defended the appointment of Kennedy Chihota as the new Director of Water and Sanitation, saying the choice was purely about qualifications, not politics. He pointed out...

South African troops just nabbed over a thousand people trying to sneak across the border from Zimbabwe. Soldiers arrested 1,174 undocumented Zimbabweans in a single operation during the past week, calling it an unusually massive influx for the holiday season. The situation turned violent, with...

The country's biggest dam is literally about to overflow. Zimbabwe's water authority issued an urgent alert that Tugwi-Mukosi Dam is at 99.6 percent capacity and could spill over at any moment due to heavy rains, after being at 99.4 percent just a day before. Officials are telling everyone...

Zimbabwe is prepping to shoot its third satellite into orbit pretty soon. The country plans to launch ZimSat-3 as a key part of its next five-year economic strategy, following earlier satellites sent up in 2022 and 2024. The government says this new bird will boost data collection for a bunch of...

A journalism intern on the run for over a year got busted for stealing a government laptop. Police in Chipinge arrested Livingstone Mtetwa, a 28-year-old who was doing his industrial attachment with the information ministry, accusing him of taking a laptop from a district office back in May of...

The national budget is now officially law, with a couple of key proposals getting axed along the way. President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Finance Act and the Appropriation Act, legally enacting the 2026 budget. The process saw Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube backtrack on two major points...

A Chinese businessman at a controversial cement plant died after a reported lightning strike. The incident happened in Magunje following a tour of the WIH-ZIM facility by local provincial minister Marian Chombo, according to activist Farai Maguwu. The plant, a 700-million-dollar project meant to...

Chicken Inn just signed the current coach of the year to lead their team. The Bulawayo club named Tonderai Ndiraya as their new head coach on a three-year deal, poaching him from the reigning champions, Scottland FC. Ndiraya, who has previously managed teams like Dynamos, brings a lot of Premier...

A fake park ranger in Zimbabwe just got three years for scamming people with bogus job offers. William Clive Makayi from Karoi pretended to be a Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority officer, conning over ten thousand dollars from victims by promising non-existent training and jobs at...

That ancient Hwange power plant is finally getting a massive, overdue facelift. A 450 million dollar deal with a company called Jindal Steel and Power will fund a full refurbishment of the station's first six units, with work starting early next year. The acting boss of ZESA Holdings, Engineer...

A guy just got two decades in prison for killing his uncle after a fight over HIV status. David Chakahwata from rural Seke was sentenced to twenty years for murdering Thomas Taderera back in 2017, hitting him with a shovel and dumping the body in a deep well. In court, Chakahwata pleaded not...

A college student from the sticks just snagged second place in a major regional contest. Danai Kwedza, a 21-year-old accounting student at the University of Zimbabwe from rural Chihota, placed in the SADC Tertiary Institutions Essay Competition, winning a prize of 1,500 dollars. She stated her...

That AI video guy caved and apologized to the cops after talking big. Content creator David Nhunzva, who was wanted by the Zimbabwe Republic Police for posting deepfake videos they said damaged their reputation, has now publicly said sorry and deleted the material. This flips his original...

The Zimbabwe soccer team is trying to play through a flu outbreak before a huge match. Warriors coach Marian Marinica admitted several people in camp are sick, including his South African assistant Ronald Moroka and himself, ahead of their final Africa Cup of Nations group game against South...

Water levels at that huge Kariba dam are creeping up, but the power situation is still absolutely dire. Recent rain around the lake has provided a tiny boost, with the lake level now at 476.24 meters and usable water storage for power sitting at just over five percent. That pathetic number is...

Road deaths in Zimbabwe basically doubled over the holidays because drivers are awful. Police stats show a brutal spike in accidents for a recent twelve-day period compared to last year, with over 2,400 crashes leading to 100 fatalities and 471 injuries. The worst single incident killed ten...

The UK is still dead last among major economies for putting money into its own future. New international data shows Britain's total investment, mixing both public and private spending, stuck at 18.6 percent of GDP, keeping it at the bottom of the G7 ranking below the United States, Germany...

That small business commissioner guy actually clawed back ten million bucks in late payments for little guys. The Office of the Small Business Commissioner just hit that milestone, recovering about a million in this financial year alone, with over half a million secured just last month. They...

Brits are suddenly using way more electricity after decades of cutting back. New numbers show demand shot up three percent this year, the biggest jump since 2001, thanks to everyone plugging in electric cars, heat pumps, and those power-hungry AI data centers. This marks the first back-to-back...