{"id":207802,"date":"2025-09-21T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prof-mthuli-ncube-officially-opens-zedcon-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:54:50","slug":"zimbabwe-prof-mthuli-ncube-officially-opens-zedcon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prof-mthuli-ncube-officially-opens-zedcon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Prof Mthuli Ncube Officially Opens Zedcon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The 4th edition of the Zimbabwe Economic Development Conference in Bulawayo enters its third and final day today Friday, with the Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, Professor Mthuli Ncube set to officially open the indaba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Prof Ncube has been requested by President Mnangagwa, who was initially expected to officially open it, but has been held up due to other pressing commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The high-level indaba is being hosted by the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190243.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 4th edition of the Zimbabwe Economic Development Conference in Bulawayo enters its third and final day today Friday, with the Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, Professor Mthuli Ncube set to officially open the indaba. Prof Ncube has been requested by President Mnangagwa, who was initially expected to officially open it, but [&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":[258,256,23832,7815,257,5982,6975,6416,254,52400,4686,421],"class_list":["post-207802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-mthuli","tag-ncube","tag-news","tag-officially","tag-opens","tag-prof","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zedcon","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207802","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=207802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207802\/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=207802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}