{"id":226408,"date":"2026-03-09T01:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabweans-must-shift-mindset-and-be-positive-of-zig-currency-rbz-top-official\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:25:15","slug":"zimbabweans-must-shift-mindset-and-be-positive-of-zig-currency-rbz-top-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabweans-must-shift-mindset-and-be-positive-of-zig-currency-rbz-top-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabweans Must Shift Mindset and Be Positive of ZiG Currency &#8211; RBZ Top Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Negative perceptions of the local ZiG currency must be changed so that the nation quickly moves towards the realisation of a mono-currency economy, a top Central Bank official has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Speaking during a stakeholder engagement meeting on education and awareness of the new Big 5 ZiG banknotes in Chinhoyi this week, RBZ Legal and Corporate Affairs Director, Virginia Sithole, said while it is true that some citizens suffered losses due to currency distortions and the poor performance of previous&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060024.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>Negative perceptions of the local ZiG currency must be changed so that the nation quickly moves towards the realisation of a mono-currency economy, a top Central Bank official has said. Speaking during a stakeholder engagement meeting on education and awareness of the new Big 5 ZiG banknotes in Chinhoyi this week, RBZ Legal and Corporate [&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":[258,256,9987,10533,257,5092,6594,5875,13283,254,7319,48253,421,1487],"class_list":["post-226408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-currency","tag-mindset","tag-news","tag-official","tag-positive","tag-rbz","tag-shift","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-zig","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabweans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226408","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=226408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226408\/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=226408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}