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...
Business majors at the University of Sunderland turned their starter cash of 25 quid per squad into over 12,700 pounds for The Children's Foundation charity. The winning crew, called North East Giving, pulled in more than 2,500 by themselves, and the whole class of first-year students beat every...
UK companies slashed jobs faster than at any point in the past nine months after Budget uncertainty and shaky customer confidence froze up business decisions, according to S&P Global data. The PMI reading dropped to 51.2 from 52.2, and workforce numbers fell for the thirteenth straight month...
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri told his US-based workers they have to show up at the office every weekday starting in February. The mandate goes harder than Meta's baseline three-day requirement for Facebook and WhatsApp teams, but the parent company said each department can do its own thing...
Electro-Harmonix put out a new solid-state amp called the ABRAMS100 that pushes 100 watts through Class D power while staying light at around 2.5 pounds. The thing costs 299 bucks and comes with a preamp section that handles three-band EQ plus a presence toggle, and they threw in digital spring...
Waves dropped another plugin for its Magma lineup called StressBox, and the whole deal runs on basically one knob that handles compression when you twist right and expansion when you go left. The company pitched it as a way simpler option than stacking multiple processors for EQ, saturation, and...
The Business Disability Forum rolled out its updated awards program for disability inclusion work, and they switched up the name to put more weight on actual results instead of just vibes. Diane Lightfoot runs the org, and she basically said companies need to show they're making real changes...
The International Federation of Journalists and France's journalist union dropped a complaint with terrorism prosecutors over blocked reporting access to Gaza and the West Bank. They collected anonymous accounts from French reporters about equipment getting snatched, physical attacks...
Amnesty International wants investigators to look into what the RSF paramilitary group did at a displacement camp called Zamzam in North Darfur. The fighters rolled up with heavy weapons and started blasting at people hiding in homes, a hospital, and even a mosque. They trashed markets, schools...
The ICC got custody of a Libyan guy named Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri after Germany handed him over from detention. German cops grabbed him at the Berlin airport back in the summer when he was flying through, and they held onto him until all the legal paperwork got sorted out. He ran Mitiga...
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