{"id":16331,"date":"2025-11-28T08:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/focus-on-zimbabwes-economic-growth-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:31","slug":"focus-on-zimbabwes-economic-growth-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/focus-on-zimbabwes-economic-growth-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Zimbabwe&#8217;s economic growth for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube predicts economic growth for 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ncube told lawmakers in Parliament on Thursday during the country&#8217;s 2026 budget presentation that despite unforeseen external challenges, the rebound in agriculture and mining would boost the economic growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In Previous years \u00a0Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy has been hit by droughts, which curbed food production and hydroelectric power supply, dragging growth to 2% in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">High Inflation has also impacted the economy, however Mthuli forecasts it will fall to 10% by year end and reach single digit levels by early 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Currently its stands at 19%,\u00a0 Zimbabwe is also not able to access financial support from international lenders due to a huge debt burden of over $23 billion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16332,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-16331","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Zimbabwean Minister predicts economic growth","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16331","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\/16331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20184,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16331\/revisions\/20184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}