Mthuli pleads with citizens to embrace local currency

TREASURY boss Mthuli Ncube has pleaded with Zimbabweans to embrace the local currency for the country to achieve growth and stability objectives of National Development Strategy 1 economic blueprint.

“This, combined with other structural reforms underway, creates the necessary conditions for currency stability,” Ncube said in his Mid-Term Budget and Economic Review yesterday.

“The attainment of durable macroeconomic stability, combined with improved electricity supply situation is expected to spur economic growth above the projected 5,3% in 2023.”

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