{"id":247967,"date":"2026-10-23T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-stanbic-bank-urges-zimbabwe-to-put-sustainability-at-heart-of-economic-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:00:05","slug":"zimbabwe-stanbic-bank-urges-zimbabwe-to-put-sustainability-at-heart-of-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-stanbic-bank-urges-zimbabwe-to-put-sustainability-at-heart-of-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Stanbic Bank Urges Zimbabwe to Put Sustainability At Heart of Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe has called for sustainability to be integrated into the country&#8217;s economic development strategy saying long-term growth must balance investment, social progress and environmental protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The bank made the call at the second edition of its Sustainability Conference, held under the theme <em>&#8220;Driving Zimbabwe&#8217;s Sustainable Growth&#8221;<\/em> which brought together bankers, corporate executives and sustainability stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The conference was attended by United Nations Resident&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610230541.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>Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe has called for sustainability to be integrated into the country&#8217;s economic development strategy saying long-term growth must balance investment, social progress and environmental protection. The bank made the call at the second edition of its Sustainability Conference, held under the theme &#8220;Driving Zimbabwe&#8217;s Sustainable Growth&#8221; which brought together bankers, corporate executives and [&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":[258,256,7089,3576,6641,5264,257,7786,254,16112,15249,6810,4686,421],"class_list":["post-247967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-growth","tag-heart","tag-news","tag-put","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stanbic","tag-sustainability","tag-urges","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247967","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=247967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247967\/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=247967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}