{"id":247064,"date":"2026-10-13T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-moves-to-create-national-database-for-small-businesses\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:00:20","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-moves-to-create-national-database-for-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-moves-to-create-national-database-for-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Moves to Create National Database for Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The government is developing a national database of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) aimed at formalising the sector improving access to government support and strengthening economic planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Corporation (SMEDCO) says the initiative has reached the minimum viable product (MVP) stage with an online registration portal under development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking at the National MSME Database Stakeholders Workshop in Harare, Women Affairs, Community, Small and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610130374.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 government is developing a national database of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) aimed at formalising the sector improving access to government support and strengthening economic planning. The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Corporation (SMEDCO) says the initiative has reached the minimum viable product (MVP) stage with an online registration portal under development. Speaking [&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":[258,256,6817,8268,15484,4357,6858,6687,257,10046,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-247064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-businesses","tag-create","tag-database","tag-govt","tag-moves","tag-national","tag-news","tag-small","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247064","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=247064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247064\/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=247064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}