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The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion has launched public consultations ahead of the 2026 National Budget with citizens urging the Government to increase spending on healthcare, education and social services to ease the impact of the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n
During hearings in Bindura, participants called for a budget that would stimulate economic growth and create employment opportunities.<\/p>\n
“The Government should allocate more…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion has launched public consultations ahead of the 2026 National Budget with citizens urging the Government to increase spending on healthcare, education and social services to ease the impact of the rising cost of living. During hearings in Bindura, participants called for a budget […]<\/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":[258,256,7019,6080,7617,1632,5731,257,254,9063,421,1487],"class_list":["post-209143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-budget","tag-demand","tag-education","tag-health","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spending","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabweans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209143","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=209143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209143\/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=209143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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