{"id":200695,"date":"2025-06-23T01:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-gold-reserves-reach-3-4-metric-tons-mnangagwa-inspects-rbz-vaults\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T01:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:37:25","slug":"zimbabwes-gold-reserves-reach-3-4-metric-tons-mnangagwa-inspects-rbz-vaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-gold-reserves-reach-3-4-metric-tons-mnangagwa-inspects-rbz-vaults\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Gold Reserves Reach 3.4 Metric Tons, Mnangagwa Inspects RBZ Vaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s gold reserves have grown to 3.4 metric tons to back the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency, introduced in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa inspected the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe&#8217;s (RBZ) gold vaults on Thursday, reaffirming the administration&#8217;s commitment to strengthening the currency&#8217;s fundamentals through mineral-backed reserves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The RBZ aims to increase its gold holdings to 5 metric tons by year-end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Speaking after the tour, President Mnangagwa said the growing reserves are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200136.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>Zimbabwe&#8217;s gold reserves have grown to 3.4 metric tons to back the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency, introduced in April 2024. President Emmerson Mnangagwa inspected the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe&#8217;s (RBZ) gold vaults on Thursday, reaffirming the administration&#8217;s commitment to strengthening the currency&#8217;s fundamentals through mineral-backed reserves. The RBZ aims to increase its gold holdings to [&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":[258,256,4644,10790,19470,7476,257,5875,5160,11008,254,7192,51703,421,7726],"class_list":["post-200695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gold","tag-inspects","tag-metric","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-rbz","tag-reach","tag-reserves","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tons","tag-vaults","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200695","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=200695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200695\/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=200695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}