APPROPRIATION (2026) SUPPLEMENTARY BILL H.B. 13, 2025

This is the Appropriation Bill for the year ending 31 December 2026, H.B. 13 of 2025. It appears in the corpus alongside the Appropriation (2026) Act, 2025, so this Bill has since been passed; the Bill text below is what it proposed.

The headline figures are two charges. The Consolidated Revenue Fund would be charged with up to ZiG 253 250 544 000 for the service of Zimbabwe during 2026, and the Retention Funds with up to ZiG 11 030 021 000. In the Schedule, Consolidated Revenue Fund supply grants total ZiG 242,220,523,000 and Retention Funds ZiG 11,030,021,000, giving a combined ZiG 253,250,544,000 — which means the figure in the section charging the Consolidated Revenue Fund is the same as the combined total of both columns, not the Consolidated Revenue Fund column alone.

Where the money goes: Primary and Secondary Education is the largest vote at ZiG 47,383,282,000, of which ZiG 8,142,693,000 comes from Retention Funds. Health and Child Care follows at ZiG 30,420,364,000, then Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion at ZiG 28,179,290,000, Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development at ZiG 26,821,677,000, Defence at ZiG 19,766,214,000, and Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage at ZiG 17,279,039,000. Within Home Affairs, Police Services take ZiG 13,570,688,000. Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs receives ZiG 6,908,626,000, of which incarceration and rehabilitation of offenders is ZiG 4,910,225,000.

Several allocations are notable for their size relative to their mandate. The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission is allocated nothing at all — both its programmes and its vote total show zero. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission receives ZiG 514,840,000, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission ZiG 248,056,000, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission ZiG 256,444,000, the Zimbabwe Gender Commission ZiG 167,824,000, and the Office of the Attorney General ZiG 304,887,000. Energy and Power Development receives ZiG 330,327,000, less than the Office of the Auditor General.

The Bill would also give the Minister of Finance two transfer powers. Where the administration of a service is assigned to a different Ministry, the Minister could direct that the corresponding portion of the appropriation move to that Ministry's Vote. And the Unallocated Reserve of Vote 5 — ZiG 16 404 042 000 under Programme 3, Sub Programme 1 — could be directed to any other Ministry's Vote for the purpose concerned, with money not required for that purpose returnable to the reserve. Transferred money is accounted for as if it had been appropriated to the receiving Vote.

Two record-keeping points. The title under which this Bill is catalogued describes it as the Appropriation (2026) Supplementary Bill, but the Bill's own text throughout is the Appropriation (2026) Bill, with no supplementary wording. And the Bill's internal cross-references slip: the Schedule is headed "(Section 4)" and section 6(3) refers to money "appropriated by section 4", although section 4 charges the Retention Funds and section 3 charges the Consolidated Revenue Fund.