{"id":220894,"date":"2026-01-18T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-gvt-slashes-vehicle-fees-in-bid-to-cut-business-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:31:00","slug":"zimbabwe-gvt-slashes-vehicle-fees-in-bid-to-cut-business-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-gvt-slashes-vehicle-fees-in-bid-to-cut-business-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Gvt Slashes Vehicle Fees in Bid to Cut Business Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Tinomudaishe MUzanenhamo \u2014 The government has dramatically reduced transport sector licences, permits and regulatory fees in a move aimed at lowering the cost of doing business and boosting economic competitiveness, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Advocate Felix Mhona has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a statement, Minister Mhona said the cuts follow a directive from President Mnangagwa during the first Cabinet meeting of 2025 which called on all ministries, departments and agencies to review and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160028.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>Tinomudaishe MUzanenhamo \u2014 The government has dramatically reduced transport sector licences, permits and regulatory fees in a move aimed at lowering the cost of doing business and boosting economic competitiveness, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Advocate Felix Mhona has said. In a statement, Minister Mhona said the cuts follow a directive from President Mnangagwa during [&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":[4338,258,256,10798,11509,8021,11432,22465,257,9700,254,7765,4686,421],"class_list":["post-220894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-costs","tag-cut","tag-fees","tag-gvt","tag-news","tag-slashes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vehicle","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220894","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=220894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220894\/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=220894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}