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Finally, some movement at that Beitbridge border nightmare. That brutal five-day snarl on the South African side is apparently gone after authorities threw some new tactics at the problem. Travelers were stuck for like ten hours in that mess. A spokesperson for the Border Management Authority...

Absolute nightmare fuel on the Zambezi. A woman named Brenda Nyoni got killed by a crocodile near Binga over the weekend, with what was left of her found inside the animal later. Matabeleland North police inspector Glory Banda confirmed the details. Nyoni was with her husband, Taylor Bruce, and...

Dude just dominated again. Tanaka Katsande and Nomalungelo Mathe locked down their spots for the 2026 Nationals after sweeping the Open and Ladies sections at the CABS Candidates chess event in Bulawayo. They ran the tables at the Christian Brothers College venue. This makes three straight wins...

Wild stuff. The Bulawayo City Council’s parking contractor, Tendy Three Investments, just dropped ninety grand on food parcels for twenty five hundred households around Bulawayo and Matabeleland North. Their big boss, Lizwe Mabuza, and the local deputy mayor, Edwin Ndlovu, were all over this...

Turns out there is a paper trail explaining why that serial offender was back on the streets. Prison officials say Peter Mwenyeveza got his four-year sentence for cattle theft chopped down by a bunch of presidential get-out-of-jail-free cards. He was originally supposed to be locked up until...

National Bank of Malawi just dropped thirty-three million Kwacha worth of medical gear at Chilomoni Health Centre. The donation, which wraps up the bank's holiday charity drive, includes patient monitors, an ECG machine, a biochemistry analyzer, oxygen concentrators, and a bunch of other...

The whole outrage over the VP's vacation isn't really about the trip itself. It's about the staggering price tag and the parade of staffers reportedly on the taxpayers' dime during an economic crisis. Calling it private does not matter once public money and government personnel get involved...

National Bank of Malawi apparently set some kind of benchmark by snagging the top spot in a bank brand contest. The so-called Superbrand Awards, run by a marketing group, ranked NBM plc first in the financial services category after an evaluation process that weighed performance and what regular...

The Vice President of Malawi is about to drop nearly two billion Kwacha of public money on a personal vacation to the UK. Official paperwork shows Jane Ansah's trip to celebrate her husband's birthday will cost taxpayers about 1.1 million dollars. The budget includes a first-class ticket for her...

This politician actually did the thing they all promised after losing an election. Gift Nankhuni, who got beaten in the 2019 parliamentary race, just hung around his area and spent his own cash fixing stuff. He rebuilt roads, put up school blocks, and even got a police unit set up, all while...

A big policy group in Malawi is telling the current administration to kill its major farm subsidy program for good. The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives, through its director Sylvester Namiwa, said the long-running Farm Input Subsidy Programme is a proven failure. They...

Cops in Lilongwe are trying to figure out how a two-time convicted felon kept walking the streets. The guy, Peter Mwenyeveza, also called Peter Mwale, just got arrested again for a string of violent motorcycle robberies. Police spokesperson Hastings Chigala confirmed the arrest, noting the...

Shop owners in Limbe's business district are bleeding vendors dry with insane rent, according to the people running stalls there. Their representative, James Willie, says a minimum monthly charge of two hundred thousand kwacha is crushing small businesses. He argues this forces lesser earners to...

Locals and chiefs in TA Kilupula, Karonga District, are calling out the Coal and Mining Group, run by a guy named Mwalafyale, for straight-up lying to them. An inspection by the Area Development Committee found the mine has gotten bigger, but the company has not built the schools or helped...

After sitting around for over ten years, that stalled Mombera University plan in Mzimba District might actually be happening. Malawi's Second Vice President, Enock Chihana, just gave contractors a hard deadline to cough up a modern design by late January, with building set to start right after...

A fire wrecked a bunch of homes in Aussenkehr, leaving 44 households without a place to live. The local council chairman, Geritt Witbooi, confirmed they handed out food parcels and temporary tents to the displaced people. The blaze started in one shack before high winds pushed it to others...

People in Malawi are seriously pissed about their Vice President Jane Ansah's holiday plans. Ansah, who got into office this past October with President Peter Mutharika, is apparently taking a private post-Christmas trip to the UK. The rage is over a leaked letter that lists fifteen government...

The Miss Cosmo Namibia org is pretty stoked about Cassia Sharpley's showing at the international pageant. Sharpley snagged the Impactful Beauty title, a pageant award that nods to leadership and having some actual substance. The group put out a statement raving about how she handled repping...

Yeah, so Namibia’s ag ministry just decided your cross-border fried chicken run is officially dead. They are slapping a full ban on bringing in processed chicken from South African chains like KFC, Hungry Lion, and Nando’s. A guy from the ministry, Simon Nghipandulwa, confirmed they are stopping...

Namibia's video game and gambling scene is apparently gonna pull in almost a billion Namibian dollars next year. That number, roughly 948 million, comes from some data crunchers over at Statista. The whole thing is still carried by old-school brick-and-mortar casinos, which rake in about 374...