{"id":235774,"date":"2026-06-09T05:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-dismisses-gmaz-urgent-bid-to-block-grain-import-levies\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:23:26","slug":"zimbabwe-high-court-dismisses-gmaz-urgent-bid-to-block-grain-import-levies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-dismisses-gmaz-urgent-bid-to-block-grain-import-levies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: High Court Dismisses Gmaz Urgent Bid to Block Grain Import Levies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The High Court has dismissed the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) urgent application seeking to stop the implementation of government&#8217;s grain import levy framework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In a ruling Justice Lucy Mungwari ruled that the matter was &#8220;not urgent&#8221; and ordered that it be struck off the urgent roll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The decision effectively allows authorities to continue implementing the levy regime introduced under Statutory Instrument (SI) 87 of 2025 which government says is designed to protect local farmers,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606080720.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 High Court has dismissed the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) urgent application seeking to stop the implementation of government&#8217;s grain import levy framework. In a ruling Justice Lucy Mungwari ruled that the matter was &#8220;not urgent&#8221; and ordered that it be struck off the urgent roll. The decision effectively allows authorities to continue [&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":[258,256,10798,9056,6185,12843,32947,10765,6184,10453,18879,257,254,11318,4686,421],"class_list":["post-235774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-block","tag-court","tag-dismisses","tag-gmaz","tag-grain","tag-high","tag-import","tag-levies","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235774","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=235774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235774\/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=235774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}