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  1. Munyaradzi Mafaro

    Ga-Nkoana trembles as zama-zamas dig under homes

    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...
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    Buckets of hope fill empty plates in Eastern Cape

    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...
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    SANDF soldier swept away, leaving boots and hearts empty

    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...
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    House crumbles in Soweto, taking lives and trust with it

    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...
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    Gospel & soul vibes hit Parys with an anti-GBV message

    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...
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    Teen forced into initiation school, found dead after matric

    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...
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    Lightning strikes twice in KZN, leaving families shattered

    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...
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    Cape Flats gang trio nabbed after years of bloodshed

    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...
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    Israel backs Somaliland, sparks Horn of Africa firestorm

    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...
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    GACH trial heats up as secret €1M cash claim surfaces

    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...
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    Gambia spends 14.4B dalasis yearly on the deadly cigarette habit

    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...
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    Gambia’s cement crisis cracks under port chaos and policy gaps

    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...
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    PASTEF hugs child welfare group, vows to protect kids together

    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...
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    Gambia dishes out food rules to fight malnutrition mess

    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...
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    Gambia’s throne is rigged, not the leaders

    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...
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    ECOWAS ditches air taxes, finally making flights affordable

    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...
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    Gambian comedian laughs his way to international fame

    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...
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    GOG goes back to its roots, co-founder buys it back

    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...
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    TSMC speeds up Arizona 3nm chips, racing rivals like mad

    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...
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    Zelda VR mod drops, Nintendo’s lawyers already twitching

    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...
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