{"id":234503,"date":"2026-05-26T16:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zims-top-brands-honoured-as-leaders-push-buy-local-drive\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:52:41","slug":"zimbabwe-zims-top-brands-honoured-as-leaders-push-buy-local-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zims-top-brands-honoured-as-leaders-push-buy-local-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zim&#8217;s Top Brands Honoured As Leaders Push &#8216;Buy Local&#8217; Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">By Tinomudaishe Muzanenhamo<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s leading companies were recognised at the 2026 ZimBrands Awards with government and business leaders urging stronger support for locally produced goods to drive economic growth, create jobs and reduce reliance on imports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The awards ceremony, held on 22 May and hosted by Buy Zimbabwe brought together policymakers and industry leaders who said strengthening domestic industries was key to the country&#8217;s economic transformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605260375.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>By Tinomudaishe Muzanenhamo Zimbabwe&#8217;s leading companies were recognised at the 2026 ZimBrands Awards with government and business leaders urging stronger support for locally produced goods to drive economic growth, create jobs and reduce reliance on imports. The awards ceremony, held on 22 May and hosted by Buy Zimbabwe brought together policymakers and industry leaders who [&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":[258,256,15798,11632,13716,12645,4381,7823,257,6354,254,7319,4686,421,7598],"class_list":["post-234503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brands","tag-buy","tag-drive","tag-honoured","tag-leaders","tag-local","tag-news","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234503","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=234503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234503\/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=234503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}