{"id":197772,"date":"2025-05-10T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-still-struggling-to-revive-zisco-steel\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T00:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:05:45","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-still-struggling-to-revive-zisco-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-still-struggling-to-revive-zisco-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Still Struggling to Revive Zisco Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">YEARS after promising the resuscitation of ZISCO Steel, the government is struggling to proffer a once-off solution to bring back the firm to its hey days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">ZISCO Steel was once a major steel producer in Zimbabwe, but it faced financial difficulties, mismanagement, and a lack of investment, leading to its closure in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaking in Parliament recently, Industry and Commerce Minister, Mangaliso Ndlovu struggled to point out any tangible progress made to revive the entity, tabling sketchy plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090163.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>YEARS after promising the resuscitation of ZISCO Steel, the government is struggling to proffer a once-off solution to bring back the firm to its hey days. ZISCO Steel was once a major steel producer in Zimbabwe, but it faced financial difficulties, mismanagement, and a lack of investment, leading to its closure in 2008. Speaking in [&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":[258,256,4357,257,9299,254,16560,16401,4686,421,45454],"class_list":["post-197772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-revive","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steel","tag-struggling","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197772","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=197772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197772\/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=197772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}