Appropriation (2025) Act, 2024

This Act appropriates money for the running of Zimbabwe for the year ending 31 December 2025. The Consolidated Revenue Fund is charged with up to ZiG234 688 015 000 and the Retention Funds with a further ZiG6 248 797 000, giving a total of ZiG240 936 812 000.

The largest single vote is Primary and Secondary Education at ZiG46,76 billion (ZiG42,52 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund plus ZiG4,25 billion in retention funds). Health and Child Care follows at ZiG28,82 billion, then Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion at ZiG28,71 billion, Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement at ZiG22,93 billion, Defence at ZiG18,05 billion, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage at ZiG16,18 billion, and the Office of the President and Cabinet at ZiG10,57 billion. Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare gets ZiG10,71 billion, the Public Service Commission ZiG10,72 billion (of which ZiG10,00 billion is pay and benefits) and Higher and Tertiary Education ZiG10,52 billion.

At the other end, several ministries and commissions get well under a billion ZiG: Energy and Power Development ZiG409,8 million, Environment, Climate and Wildlife ZiG516,8 million, Industry and Commerce ZiG550,9 million, ICT, Postal and Courier Services ZiG741,4 million, Mines and Mining Development ZiG764,8 million, and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ZiG467,4 million. The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission gets ZiG236,2 million, the Human Rights Commission ZiG176,3 million, the Gender Commission ZiG177,3 million and the Media Commission ZiG144,2 million.

Within the Finance vote sits an Unallocated Reserve of ZiG19 487 235 000 under Programme 3, Sub Programme 1. The Minister of Finance may direct that money from this reserve be transferred to any other ministry's vote for a specified purpose; it may not then be used for anything else, and if it turns out not to be needed the Minister may direct it back to the reserve. The Minister may also transfer money between votes where responsibility for a service has been reassigned to a different ministry. Transferred money is accounted for as if it had been appropriated to the receiving vote.

Two observations from the schedule. The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission appears as Vote 33 with its programmes listed but no figures at all against them, so it receives nothing in this appropriation. And the printed schedule carries several evident typographical slips — the Lands and Agriculture Policy and Administration line reads "3,387,876,0000" with an extra zero against a vote total consistent with ZiG3,387,876,000, and the National Prosecuting Authority vote total is printed as "460,483,0000" against a correct component sum of ZiG460 483 000. Read the vote totals, not the stray digits.