{"id":225683,"date":"2026-03-01T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zimra-buy-zimbabwe-in-joint-blitz-to-curb-smuggling-of-goods\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:09:10","slug":"zimbabwe-zimra-buy-zimbabwe-in-joint-blitz-to-curb-smuggling-of-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zimra-buy-zimbabwe-in-joint-blitz-to-curb-smuggling-of-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zimra, Buy Zimbabwe in Joint Blitz to Curb Smuggling of Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) and Buy Zimbabwe have intensified efforts to curb the smuggling of goods at various entry points, a practice identified as a major threat to local industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Authorities in Zimbabwe have long struggled to combat the illegal importation of goods due to porous border posts and corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">As a result, the country is estimated to be losing more than US$1 billion annually, a situation that is hampering the growth of locally manufactured products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Buy Zimbabwe&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270317.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 Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) and Buy Zimbabwe have intensified efforts to curb the smuggling of goods at various entry points, a practice identified as a major threat to local industry. Authorities in Zimbabwe have long struggled to combat the illegal importation of goods due to porous border posts and corruption. As a result, the [&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":[258,256,16926,11632,10637,8240,6984,257,9688,254,4686,421,3069],"class_list":["post-225683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blitz","tag-buy","tag-curb","tag-goods","tag-joint","tag-news","tag-smuggling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225683","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=225683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225683\/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=225683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}