{"id":227150,"date":"2026-03-17T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rbz-backs-zig-only-payments-for-suppliers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:44:01","slug":"zimbabwe-rbz-backs-zig-only-payments-for-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rbz-backs-zig-only-payments-for-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: RBZ Backs Zig-Only Payments for Suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has endorsed a government directive requiring public sector suppliers and contractors to be paid exclusively in the local currency, ZiG describing the move as a key step towards strengthening its use in the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In a statement, John Mushayavanhu said the policy recently announced by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube would help boost demand for the domestic currency and support long-term monetary stability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;The Reserve Bank welcomes the pronouncement by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603170096.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 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has endorsed a government directive requiring public sector suppliers and contractors to be paid exclusively in the local currency, ZiG describing the move as a key step towards strengthening its use in the economy. In a statement, John Mushayavanhu said the policy recently announced by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube [&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":[258,256,7102,257,6841,5875,254,15034,53932,4686,421],"class_list":["post-227150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-news","tag-payments","tag-rbz","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suppliers","tag-zigonly","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227150","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=227150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227150\/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=227150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}