{"id":194245,"date":"2025-03-22T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T05:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-to-crack-whip-on-foreigners-invading-reserved-sectors\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T05:25:22","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-to-crack-whip-on-foreigners-invading-reserved-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-to-crack-whip-on-foreigners-invading-reserved-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt to Crack Whip On Foreigners Invading Reserved Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">IN a desperate bid to force the acceptance of local currency and curb the smuggling of counterfeit goods by small to medium enterprises (SMEs), the government is targeting a clampdown on foreign nationals who have invaded the reserved sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Foreign nationals are flooding the SME sector, establishing tuck shops in the lower part of Harare, where they sell goods ranging from groceries to other commodities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">This is despite the sector having been protected by the government through the amended&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210357.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>IN a desperate bid to force the acceptance of local currency and curb the smuggling of counterfeit goods by small to medium enterprises (SMEs), the government is targeting a clampdown on foreign nationals who have invaded the reserved sector. Foreign nationals are flooding the SME sector, establishing tuck shops in the lower part of Harare, [&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":[258,256,13654,7770,4357,17735,257,10203,16278,254,13655,4686,421],"class_list":["post-194245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crack","tag-foreigners","tag-govt","tag-invading","tag-news","tag-reserved","tag-sectors","tag-south-africa-today","tag-whip","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194245","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=194245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194245\/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=194245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}