{"id":185834,"date":"2024-12-04T01:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rural-development-8-0-can-transform-rural-economy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T01:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:02:16","slug":"zimbabwe-rural-development-8-0-can-transform-rural-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rural-development-8-0-can-transform-rural-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Rural Development 8.0 Can Transform Rural Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Government&#8217;s Rural Development 8.0 rural development initiative is expected to set the stage for the transformation of Zimbabwe&#8217;s rural economy with the establishment of 10 000 business units in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The initiative is part of the broader plan to create 35 000 Village Business Units (VBUs), 4 800 Youth Business Units (YBUs), and 9 600 School Business Units (SBUs) by 2028, in a development that may fundamentally reshape the rural economic landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Finance, Economic Development and Investment&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412030435.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s Rural Development 8.0 rural development initiative is expected to set the stage for the transformation of Zimbabwe&#8217;s rural economy with the establishment of 10 000 business units in 2025. The initiative is part of the broader plan to create 35 000 Village Business Units (VBUs), 4 800 Youth Business Units (YBUs), and 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5989,5762,257,6309,254,9355,4686,421],"class_list":["post-185834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-development","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transform","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}