{"id":203732,"date":"2025-08-01T14:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-diaspora-remittances-rise-to-u-s-635-2-million\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:59:54","slug":"zimbabwe-diaspora-remittances-rise-to-u-s-635-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-diaspora-remittances-rise-to-u-s-635-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Diaspora Remittances Rise to U.S.$635.2 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">DIASPORA remittances rose to US$635.2 million in the year&#8217;s first half, signalling a 7.1% increase compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Presenting the Mid-term Budget Review Thursday, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said the revenue category performed fairly well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;Remittances increased by 7,1%, from US$593.2 million in the first quarter of 2024 to US$635.2 million in 2025. The remittances have had a favourable impact on the current account balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">&#8220;To year end, remittances are projected to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010332.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>DIASPORA remittances rose to US$635.2 million in the year&#8217;s first half, signalling a 7.1% increase compared to the same period last year. Presenting the Mid-term Budget Review Thursday, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said the revenue category performed fairly well. &#8220;Remittances increased by 7,1%, from US$593.2 million in the first quarter of 2024 to US$635.2 million [&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":[258,256,3506,5118,257,29657,10256,254,52002,4686,421],"class_list":["post-203732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-diaspora","tag-million","tag-news","tag-remittances","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-635-2","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203732","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=203732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203732\/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=203732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}