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Angry locals are blocking roads over illegal mines under their houses. Residents of Ga-Nkoana in Limpopo are protesting against dangerous illegal mining, known as zama-zama activity, which involves tunneling beneath homes and the R37 road. The community, part of the Elias Motsoaledi Local...

A food charity just moved over a million rand worth of groceries to hungry families. SA Harvest raised about 1.4 million rand through its Buckets of Nutrition campaign. This effort provided food relief to roughly fourteen hundred vulnerable families. The aid reached people in Nelson Mandela Bay...

A soldier is still missing after a river swallowed his patrol vehicle. The South African National Defence Force member vanished on Christmas Day when floodwaters on the Komati River swept away his military vehicle near the Mozambique border. His fellow soldier's body was found the next day. The...

A house collapse killed three people, including kids, in Soweto. A double-storey home in Doornkop, Soweto, fell down, trapping six people inside. Three victims died: a 35-year-old woman, a ten-year-old girl, and a three-year-old girl. Three others survived: a 60-year-old woman, a 28-year-old...

A major gospel and soul concert is hitting Parys to start the new year with a purpose. The Gospel and Soul By The River event, set for January first at Mimosa Gardens, blends a stacked musical lineup with a strong stand against gender-based violence and suicide. Organized by Maloya Raw, it...

A teenager is dead following a forced initiation rite in the North West province. Onalenna Booi, a nineteen-year-old matric pupil from Tiego Tawana Secondary School, was reportedly taken against his will to a traditional initiation school after completing his exams. His family found his body...

A lightning strike in KZN just killed a man during the weekend storms. The fatal hit happened near Utrecht as severe thunderstorms hammered the northern parts of the province, destroying hundreds of homes and displacing families. This follows another tragic incident days earlier, where a...

Cops in Cape Town just bagged three major gang suspects after some serious detective work. Western Cape police arrested the men, aged twenty-eight, thirty-six, and thirty-eight, in coordinated raids across Manenberg, Athlone, and Mitchells Plain. They are linked to a string of murders and...

Israel just recognized Somaliland, and everyone is losing their minds. The Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa blasted the move, calling it a dangerous power grab by Israel to undermine Somalia and secure a foothold in the Horn of Africa. They linked it directly to the Gaza conflict...

A witness just dropped a bomb in a messy civil lawsuit over hidden cash. Abdoulie Saine testified that former Gampetroleum boss Saikou Drammeh hid a one million euro payment, with help from a lawyer. Saine also said he saw Drammeh take cash from Haruna Kebbeh, the brother of co-defendant...

The Gambia burns over fourteen billion dalasis a year just on cigarettes. Omar Conteh, who leads a tobacco monitoring team, dropped the number, explaining the country is purely a consumption market for imported products. He said national smoking rates hit sixteen point seven percent, with nearly...

That cement shortage wrecking everything is a complete system failure. The Confederation of Gambian Industries just laid out why in a new brief, blaming the Port of Banjul's bottlenecks, messed-up policies, and weak market oversight. They say shallow channels and no space to dock keep full ships...

A political movement just linked up with a children's foundation for some feel-good collab. PASTEF, a group calling for system change, thanked Barrister Malick Jallow, who runs the Malick Jallow Foundation for Children, for hosting their delegation. PASTEF's PR guy, Mayorro Sidibeh, called the...

The Gambia finally has official dietary guidelines to tackle its messed-up nutrition problems. The Ministry of Health, with major backing from the FAO, launched the National Food-Based Dietary Guidelines at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara conference center in Bijilo. Permanent Secretary Dr. Yusupha...

The real problem isn't the guy sitting in the big chair; it's the whole damn throne he's sitting on. That's the argument from a recent analysis of The Gambia, tracing a straight line from Jawara to Jammeh to Barrow. Each leader just operated the same predatory state machinery, a system built on...

ECOWAS is finally trying to kill those insane air ticket taxes. The bloc has ordered all member states to scrap these levies by the start of 2026, after their heads of state agreed on the plan earlier. A top official, Chris Appiah, pointed to these government taxes as the main reason West Africa...

A 22-year-old Gambian kid is putting his country on the map with TikTok comedy. Ousman Joof, known online as Network Comedy or Network Americana, racked up over a million followers in two years. He just snagged the Most Outstanding Comedian in West Africa award, a point of national pride, he...

One of GOG's original founders just bought the whole store back. Michal Kicinski, who co-founded both CD Projekt Red and GOG, has acquired the digital platform from CDPR. The company announced the move in a blog post, stressing that the core mission of a DRM-free, user-controlled library remains...

TSMC is freaking hustling to make chips in Arizona way faster than anyone thought. The Taiwanese semiconductor giant now wants to start pumping out 3nm processors at its second Arizona plant by 2027, a full year ahead of schedule. This follows their first Arizona fab, already working on 4nm...

Some mad lad finally built a full VR mod for Breath of the Wild. Developer Crementif, working with Flat2VR Studios, just dropped this massive project after five years of work. It started as a simple test to chop trees in VR and exploded into the complete BetterVR mod. The mod requires a specific...