{"id":14568,"date":"2025-11-05T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwean-economy-sees-light-at-end-of-decades-long-hyperinflation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:07","slug":"zimbabwean-economy-sees-light-at-end-of-decades-long-hyperinflation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwean-economy-sees-light-at-end-of-decades-long-hyperinflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean economy sees light at end of decades-long hyperinflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries, or CZI, reports that annual inflation measured in the gold-backed Zimbabwe Gold, or ZiG, dropped from 82.7% in September to 32.7% in October 2025.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries projects inflation could halve again by the end of next year, landing between 15% and 20%. That would mark Zimbabwe&#8217;s lowest rate in years, if it happens. But with such a history of volatility, some economists are cautious. Some see the drop as fragile, dependent more on gold prices and tight controls than lasting reform. For a country where inflation once hit billions of percent, projections alone can&#8217;t restore trust.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14569,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14568","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"After decades of economic turbulence and hyperinflation that wiped out savings and confidence, Zimbabwe may finally be seeing signs of relief","published_date":"2025-11-05 00:00:00","news_description":"After decades of economic turbulence and hyperinflation that wiped out savings and confidence, Zimbabwe may finally be seeing signs of relief","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19172,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14568\/revisions\/19172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}