{"id":208039,"date":"2025-09-24T06:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-blitz-targets-fake-and-expired-goods-in-harare-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T06:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:59:51","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-blitz-targets-fake-and-expired-goods-in-harare-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-blitz-targets-fake-and-expired-goods-in-harare-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Blitz Targets Fake and Expired Goods in Harare Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Ministry of Industry and Commerce working with the Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) has launched a blitz in Harare&#8217;s central business district to tackle counterfeit, expired and underweight products while raising awareness of fair business practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The operation carried out with support from the Zimbabwe Republic Police, Trade Measures and private sector partners saw teams engaging retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers on compliance standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Regional Trade Measures inspector&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509230480.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 Ministry of Industry and Commerce working with the Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) has launched a blitz in Harare&#8217;s central business district to tackle counterfeit, expired and underweight products while raising awareness of fair business practices. The operation carried out with support from the Zimbabwe Republic Police, Trade Measures and private sector partners saw teams [&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":[258,256,16926,14409,8527,6891,8240,4357,500,257,254,7317,4686,421],"class_list":["post-208039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blitz","tag-crackdown","tag-expired","tag-fake","tag-goods","tag-govt","tag-harare","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targets","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208039","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=208039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208039\/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=208039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}