{"id":202338,"date":"2025-07-13T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trabablas-interchange-cost-hits-u-s-114-million-as-treasury-reveals-an-unbudgeted-u-s-26-million-was-paid\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:22:58","slug":"zimbabwe-trabablas-interchange-cost-hits-u-s-114-million-as-treasury-reveals-an-unbudgeted-u-s-26-million-was-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trabablas-interchange-cost-hits-u-s-114-million-as-treasury-reveals-an-unbudgeted-u-s-26-million-was-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Trabablas Interchange Cost Hits U.S.$114 Million As Treasury Reveals an Unbudgeted U.S.$26 Million Was Paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The cost of constructing the recently commissioned Trabablas Interchange in Harare was beyond the US$88 million initially communicated and budgeted for, Treasury has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Treasury confirmed in Parliament that the project cost a total of US$114 million &#8211; an increase of US$26 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">When questions were raised about the project&#8217;s cost, the government was quick to attribute the increase to the relocation of families who had been settled close to the project site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Experts have, however,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110071.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 cost of constructing the recently commissioned Trabablas Interchange in Harare was beyond the US$88 million initially communicated and budgeted for, Treasury has revealed. The Treasury confirmed in Parliament that the project cost a total of US$114 million &#8211; an increase of US$26 million. When questions were raised about the project&#8217;s cost, the government was [&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":[258,256,6629,7111,19621,5118,257,12206,14326,254,50347,13061,51854,51856,51855,4686,421],"class_list":["post-202338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-hits","tag-interchange","tag-million","tag-news","tag-paid","tag-reveals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trabablas","tag-treasury","tag-u-s-114","tag-u-s-26","tag-unbudgeted","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202338","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=202338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202338\/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=202338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}