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\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) – South Africa’s budget shortfall increased to 150 billion rand ($19.35 billion) in the 12 months to March, compared to a 135 billion rand deficit over the same period in 2010\/11, data from the Treasury showed on Monday. Revenue came to about 740 billion rand in 2011\/12, against expenditure of 890 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) - South Africa's budget shortfall increased\nto 150 billion rand ($19.35 billion) in the 12 months to March, compared to a\n135 billion rand deficit over the same period in 2010\/11, data from the Treasury\nshowed on Monday.\t\n Revenue came to about 740 billion rand in 2011\/12, against expenditure of\n890 billion rand. The Treasury in April estimated the budget shortfall for the\n2011\/12 financial year at 4.5 percent of gross domestic product.\t\n The table below indicates revenue and expenditure for March, cumulative data\nfor April-March and comparable figures for the previous year. \t\n Revenue and expenditure for the fiscal year to date are also expressed as\npercentages of the estimate for 2011\/12 and the outcome for 2010\/11. \t\n\t\n REVENUE March April-March Pct of Revised estimate\/ \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln audited outcome \n 2011\/12 90.155 739.803 100.7% \n 2010\/11 85.55 669.738 100.0% \n \t\n EXPENDITURE March April-March Pct of Revised estimate\/ \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln audited outcome \n 2011\/12 101.636 889.529 99.8% \n 2010\/11 89.255 805.190 100.0% \n ($1 = 7.7500 South African rand)\t\n\t\n (Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Stella Mapenzaswa)<\/pre>\n