{"id":237882,"date":"2026-07-01T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-waives-import-duty-for-south-africa-returnees-imposes-strict-conditions-to-curb-abuse\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:18:11","slug":"zimbabwe-waives-import-duty-for-south-africa-returnees-imposes-strict-conditions-to-curb-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-waives-import-duty-for-south-africa-returnees-imposes-strict-conditions-to-curb-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Waives Import Duty for South Africa Returnees, Imposes Strict Conditions to Curb Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">GOVERNMENT has announced a special duty waiver for Zimbabweans returning from South Africa, but has imposed strict conditions aimed at preventing &#8220;abuse by non-qualifying individuals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Addressing journalists in Harare, Monday, Information Minister Soda Zhemu said the waiver covers personal and household goods, commercial equipment and one motor vehicle per returnee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">However, he said only vehicles purchased before December 31, 2022, and at least 10 years old will qualify for the rebate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">While&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606300134.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>GOVERNMENT has announced a special duty waiver for Zimbabweans returning from South Africa, but has imposed strict conditions aimed at preventing &#8220;abuse by non-qualifying individuals&#8221;. Addressing journalists in Harare, Monday, Information Minister Soda Zhemu said the waiver covers personal and household goods, commercial equipment and one motor vehicle per returnee. However, he said only vehicles [&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":[5099,258,256,8288,10637,9134,10453,17737,257,8179,5069,254,22932,22335,4686,421],"class_list":["post-237882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conditions","tag-curb","tag-duty","tag-import","tag-imposes","tag-news","tag-returnees","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strict","tag-waives","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237882","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=237882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237882\/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=237882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}