{"id":235239,"date":"2026-06-03T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-treasury-reaffirms-grain-import-levies-as-gmaz-legal-challenge-loses-momentum\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:11:21","slug":"zimbabwe-treasury-reaffirms-grain-import-levies-as-gmaz-legal-challenge-loses-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-treasury-reaffirms-grain-import-levies-as-gmaz-legal-challenge-loses-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Treasury Reaffirms Grain Import Levies As GMAZ Legal Challenge Loses Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Efforts by the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) to portray Government&#8217;s grain import levy framework introduced under Statutory Instrument 87 of 2025 as legally abandoned suffered a major setback after fresh Treasury correspondence revealed continued State backing for revised levies aimed at protecting local farmers, financing irrigation infrastructure and reducing Zimbabwe&#8217;s heavy dependence on imports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">While Ministry of Finance earlier raised legal concerns over the structure of SI 87&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030479.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>Efforts by the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) to portray Government&#8217;s grain import levy framework introduced under Statutory Instrument 87 of 2025 as legally abandoned suffered a major setback after fresh Treasury correspondence revealed continued State backing for revised levies aimed at protecting local farmers, financing irrigation infrastructure and reducing Zimbabwe&#8217;s heavy dependence on [&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":[258,256,7485,32947,10765,10453,6393,18879,10569,16362,257,8132,254,13061,4686,421],"class_list":["post-235239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenge","tag-gmaz","tag-grain","tag-import","tag-legal","tag-levies","tag-loses","tag-momentum","tag-news","tag-reaffirms","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treasury","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235239","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=235239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235239\/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=235239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}