{"id":213456,"date":"2025-11-13T08:53:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-dangote-returns-to-zimbabwe-after-a-decade-says-he-sees-transparency-now-pledges-u-s-1-billion-investment\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:53:58","slug":"zimbabwe-dangote-returns-to-zimbabwe-after-a-decade-says-he-sees-transparency-now-pledges-u-s-1-billion-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-dangote-returns-to-zimbabwe-after-a-decade-says-he-sees-transparency-now-pledges-u-s-1-billion-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Dangote Returns to Zimbabwe After a Decade, Says He Sees Transparency Now &#8211; Pledges U.S.$1 Billion Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Africa&#8217;s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has announced plans to invest over US$1 billion in Zimbabwe, saying he is confident in the country&#8217;s renewed transparency and improved business climate, a sharp contrast to his first experience in 2015 when proposed deals collapsed amid bureaucracy and corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">During his 2015 visit, the Dangote Group founder and CEO met then-President Robert Mugabe and expressed interest in developing the Sengwa coal fields and constructing a 2,800MW coal-fired power plant&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511130059.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>Africa&#8217;s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has announced plans to invest over US$1 billion in Zimbabwe, saying he is confident in the country&#8217;s renewed transparency and improved business climate, a sharp contrast to his first experience in 2015 when proposed deals collapsed amid bureaucracy and corruption. During his 2015 visit, the Dangote Group founder and CEO [&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":[258,256,6495,6698,7671,6018,257,7287,5068,10159,254,7609,45453,4686,421],"class_list":["post-213456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-dangote","tag-decade","tag-investment","tag-news","tag-pledges","tag-returns","tag-sees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transparency","tag-u-s-1","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213456","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=213456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213456\/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=213456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}