{"id":200026,"date":"2025-06-13T01:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-imf-wants-zimbabwes-gold-backed-zig-to-become-sole-currency\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T01:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:17:49","slug":"zimbabwe-imf-wants-zimbabwes-gold-backed-zig-to-become-sole-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-imf-wants-zimbabwes-gold-backed-zig-to-become-sole-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: IMF Wants Zimbabwe&#8217;s Gold-Backed Zig to Become Sole Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The International Monetary Fund said it would like to see the ZiG &#8220;fully becoming a national currency,&#8221; as it weighs whether to place Zimbabwe on a staff-monitored program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The ZiG, short for Zimbabwe Gold, succeeded the Zimbabwean dollar in April 2024 after multiple crashes. It&#8217;s the country&#8217;s sixth attempt since 2009 to replace the dollar as the southern African nation&#8217;s main transacting currency, but is yet to succeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Several measures will need to be adopted to boost ZiG usage, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120469.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 International Monetary Fund said it would like to see the ZiG &#8220;fully becoming a national currency,&#8221; as it weighs whether to place Zimbabwe on a staff-monitored program. The ZiG, short for Zimbabwe Gold, succeeded the Zimbabwean dollar in April 2024 after multiple crashes. It&#8217;s the country&#8217;s sixth attempt since 2009 to replace the dollar [&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":[258,256,9987,45439,1283,257,7969,254,48253,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-200026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-currency","tag-goldbacked","tag-imf","tag-news","tag-sole","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zig","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200026","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=200026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200026\/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=200026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}