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  1. Munyaradzi Mafaro

    JMPD nabs 173 drunk drivers in festive crackdown

    Johannesburg cops bagged 173 drunk drivers between early and mid-December while running Tshela Thupa operations meant to clean up roads during the holiday season, when traffic gets wild. Police Chief Patrick Jaca said the weekly haul should freak out anyone who cares about staying alive, and...
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    Madonsela’s inheritance fight, Foxton’s will in doubt

    Executors defending Richard Foxton's estate are backing a property handover worth 10 million rand to Thuli Madonsela after the late PR guy switched his bequest from cash to a Cape Town golf estate house months before dying. His four kids are beefing with the former Public Protector over which...
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    Ramathuba’s last stand on R400M road flop

    Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba heads back to check on the Morebeng-to-Sekgosese road mess for the third time after eight years of contractors flaking and cash vanishing into thin air. The 32-kilometer stretch was supposed to connect eight villages with proper tar and flood bridges by 2022, but...
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    Blue light bandits busted, cops end deadly chase

    Two dudes running blue-light robbery schemes got smoked during a shootout with cops on the R59 near Parys after refusing to pull over when a joint police squad tried stopping their white Golf fitted with fake emergency equipment. Officers from Gauteng's Tactical Response Team and other units...
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    Ramaphosa calls for unity, reconciliation for the kids

    President Cyril Ramaphosa heads to the Ncome Museum in KwaZulu-Natal's Nquthu area to give a speech about keeping the country glued together instead of letting old wounds fester. The whole thing happens at the Battle of Blood River heritage spot, where Voortrekker forces clashed with Zulu...
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    Mashawana’s feast for 3,000 elders, dignity served hot

    The Collen Mashawana Foundation threw its third elderly Christmas bash at Thohoyandou Stadium, and over 3,000 seniors from 60 Limpopo villages showed up for food, grooming services, meds, blankets, wheelchairs, and holiday hampers. Traditional leader Thovhele Gole Mphaphuli and Thulamela Mayor...
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    Madlanga report locked up, SA waits in the dark

    President Ramaphosa gets the Madlanga Commission interim findings handed straight to him without any public release, and the decision has people sketching about transparency since the probe digs into criminal gangs allegedly running wild inside South African police departments, intelligence...
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    Smart Village lights up, solar hope for Mabvete

    South Africa's Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is heading to Mabvete Village in Limpopo's Vhembe District on Friday to flip the switch on a solar microgrid that powers over 700 homes without tapping the national grid. The setup runs on industrial panels and battery storage while...
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    Tembisa principal slain, robbers strike at midnight

    Four dudes busted into a Tembisa home around midnight and shot a 61-year-old school principal dead while robbing the place in Maokeng Extension. The suspects beat up his wife and son before grabbing valuables and bouncing, leaving the family wrecked, and the community shook about safety during...
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    GRA trains bosses in gender smarts, diversity pays

    Gambia Revenue Authority kicked off a workshop at the Senegambia Beach Hotel, where senior staff and gender focal points are getting trained on diversity and inclusion stuff for five straight days. Deputy Director Binta Sallah Kandeh said the whole point is embedding equity into policies and...
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    PAC says one man can’t save Gambia, unity is key

    Some new coalition called the People's Alliance for Change rolled out at Alliance Française, saying nobody can fix Gambia solo while laying out their game plan for next year's presidential race. Deputy chair Papa Jagne mentioned nearly 15 political parties already vibed with their pitch to back...
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    Gambia greens up, Turkey trains eco-warriors

    Turkey's environment ministry ran a workshop for 47 Gambian officials to teach them how to deal with desertification, land degradation, and flooding problems that hit during the rainy season. The program went down at the Senegambia Hotel with reps from the Turkish cooperation agency explaining...
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    Sanyang Fund rakes in 2M dalasi, backs local dreams

    Some community funds in Sanyang pulled nearly two million dalasi over the past year from diaspora members and local donors who chipped in through GoFundMe and other fundraising channels. The group dropped around 1.4 million on stuff like mortuary support, medical interventions, legal fees, and...
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    Gambia trains youth, women, PWDs in peace-building

    Some peace-building workshop just wrapped up in Kerewan, where youth groups, women, and disabled people got trained on handling conflicts and leading communities better. The West Africa Network for Peace-building ran the whole thing with UNDP backing and UN money, bringing together folks to...
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    UK wants Apple, Google to block nudes by default

    The UK government wants Apple and Google to slap nudity-detection software on iPhones and Android devices to stop kids from shooting or sharing explicit pics of genitals. Officials are pushing for explicit imagery to get blocked by default across all gadgets, with adults needing to verify their...
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    Google TPUs surge, MediaTek and Broadcom score big

    Google doubled its chip orders at MediaTek for the upcoming TPU v7e after seeing wild demand from both internal teams and outside customers. The company split manufacturing between MediaTek and Broadcom to grab more CoWoS packaging capacity from TSMC, which speeds up how fast they can ship these...
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    NVIDIA drops Nemotron 3, tiny but fierce AI models

    Nvidia rolled out its Nemotron 3 lineup with three model sizes called Nano at 30 billion parameters, Super hitting around 100 billion, and Ultra pushing 500 billion for heavy-duty AI tasks. The smallest version dropped already and supposedly runs four times faster than the previous generation...
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    Lords of the Fallen II chops harder, no filters

    CI Games dropped the first actual gameplay footage for Lords of the Fallen II at The Game Awards, and the studio confirmed the sequel hits shelves sometime next year. The trailer showed off a dismemberment system that lets players hack enemies apart more efficiently, plus the developer promised...
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    Larian’s Divinity goes deep, no hand-holding included

    Larian Studios basically told fans their next Divinity game will dwarf Baldur's Gate 3 in scope after dropping a cinematic teaser at The Game Awards. Publishing Director Michael Douse mentioned the team wanted to respect player intelligence instead of just throwing shock value at them, and the...
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    Wilds performance leaps, hunters finally breathe easy

    Capcom dropped comparison footage showing Monster Hunter Wilds getting way smoother after Title Update 4 drops with over 100 performance tweaks. Tests on AMD Ryzen 5 5600X with RX 6600 and Intel Core i5-10400 with RTX 2060 Super both pulled around 10 extra frames per second during boss scraps...
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