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President Peter Mutharika dropped 10 million kwacha on Malawi's netball teams before the African championship hits Lilongwe next month with the Queens and Kings splitting the cash down the middle. First Lady Gertrude Mutharika showed up at Griffin Saenda Indoor Sports Complex to hand over the...

eThekwini Municipality got young people together at King Zwelithini Stadium in uMlazi and basically told them they need to start leading the charge against gender violence and femicide instead of just sitting back. Deputy Mayor Zandile Myeni said cops alone cannot fix this mess without families...

The Free State branch of the South African Communist Party went off on national chairperson Blade Nzimande after he dropped a discussion paper calling for a special congress to revisit the decision about running independently from the ANC in the upcoming municipal elections. Provincial leaders...

Deputy Minister Mimmy Gondwe helped Elangeni TVET College pull in over a million rand at their fundraising gala at the Premier Hotel in Umhlanga near Durban. The event drew 150 people from businesses and education who kicked in cash through pledges, sponsorships, donations and auction bids...

Rob Papen dropped DelGrain, which mashes up granular delay with tape delay plus a distortion module and filter section that all get controlled by this thing called the Disrupt Sphere. The plugin lets you route the granular processing before the delay, inside it, after it, or running in parallel...

Valhalla DSP dropped version 5.0 of their freebie ValhallaSupermassive reverb plugin and threw in a fresh algorithm called Sirius. The new mode basically handles everything from small rooms to huge cathedral spaces and keeps things clear even when the decay goes on forever. Echo density can go...

Blanketfort Audio just pushed Ruinator to version 1.1 and finally added AAX format for the Pro Tools crowd. The distortion plugin got two fresh modes called Lo Fuzz, which is tuned for bass and meant to rattle your walls, plus Fold, which is basically a West Coast wavefolder thing that works...

Scaler Music dropped version 3.2 for their Scaler plugin, and it's free if you already own Scaler 3. The big addition is Scenes on the Arrange page, which lets you bundle chords into sections like verse or chorus stuff and tweak them as a single unit. There's also User Track Recording that...

Xaoc Devices just put out the Konin, a tiny 4HP module that basically does gain and attenuation across two channels for Eurorack nerds who need precise manual control. The thing can either crank weak signals up by 20dB or squash them down to like 1% of what they started as, and it doubles as a...

Franklin Audio dropped the MP-10, which basically lets you run any microphone through guitar pedals or amps without turning your signal into hot garbage. The box has custom circuitry that fixes the impedance mismatch between mics and guitar gear, plus it gives you 12 to 60dB of gain from the...

South Africa absolutely demolished India by 408 runs in Guwahati to wrap up a 2-0 series clean sweep, marking their first Test series win on Indian soil in 25 years. Off-spinner Simon Harmer ripped through the batting lineup with figures of 6-37 as India got rolled for just 140 while chasing an...

A Gauteng High Court judge got busted by the Hawks for allegedly taking bribes to fix a church leadership case. Portia Phahlane, age 57, was arrested at her home alongside her son and two other people connected to the International Pentecost Holiness Church succession drama. Prosecutors claim...

The DA is hyped about Fezile Dabi District Municipality dropping cash on fresh wheels after their old fleet was basically garage decorations at this point. The council grabbed five new rides, a mix of bakkies and sedans, to help different departments actually do their jobs across the massive...

South Africa's science minister told a packed forum in Pretoria that African countries need to stop letting foreign donors decide what gets researched on the continent. Blade Nzimande said the donor money usually comes with strings attached that push projects that don't actually solve local...

Chief Justice Mandisa Maya dropped two annual reports about how the courts are doing, and the justice department says they're gonna use the info to figure out how to make things run better. She became the first woman in that top job and laid out some rough numbers showing regional criminal...

South African roads turn into death traps every holiday season, and the government is begging people to chill out with the reckless driving before more families get wrecked. Last festive period saw over 1,500 deaths from crashes, which works out to like 30 people dying daily because someone...

The former Road Accident Fund boss is refusing to show up for parliamentary hearings and says the whole thing breaks the rules. Collins Letsoalo told reporters his legal team sent letters demanding lawmakers back off or face court action, claiming the public accounts committee has zero business...

Nedbank cut a check for 600 million rand to Transnet after getting dragged into some sketchy interest rate swap deals that had Gupta fingerprints all over them. The logistics company said those transactions from back in the day ended up costing them around 3.4 billion extra in interest payments...

Standard Bank just became the first African lender to plug straight into China's payment network called CIPS, which lets them move money in yuan without touching US dollars. The setup means companies trading between Africa and China can skip the middleman currency and save up to 30 percent on...

Pretoria mayor Nasiphi Moya had cops shut down a bar called Ipi Ntombi after finding out Chinese nationals were running it as a full-blown brothel. Sex workers were getting charged a thousand bucks weekly just to rent rooms there, and officials found cash hidden under beds during the raid. The...