{"id":11337,"date":"2012-06-11T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rpt-factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:07:42","slug":"rpt-factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-FACTBOX-Key political risks to watch in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Repeats with no change to text)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling ANC<br \/>\nis braced for a major policy conference this month after the top<br \/>\nthree international credit rating agencies said the party was<br \/>\nsending Africa&#8217;s largest economy down the wrong path.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The main concern of the African National Congress, in power<br \/>\nsince apartheid ended in 1994, is a leadership struggle that now<br \/>\nlooks set to be settled with President Jacob Zuma in position to<br \/>\ncontrol the party and country for the rest of this decade.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This scenario worries economists who feel his ineffectual<br \/>\nleadership will allow problems to fester including a broken<br \/>\neducation system, an overly rigid labour market and rampant<br \/>\ncorruption, with risks mounting the longer he stays in power.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the electric grid is operating on razor-thin<br \/>\nmargins, raising the possibility of rolling blackouts that could<br \/>\nslow growth and cost the energy-hungry mining sector billions of<br \/>\ndollars in lost output.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>THE ZUMA ROT<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zuma&#8217;s presidency has focused largely on an electoral<br \/>\nconference at the end of the year where the ANC selects its<br \/>\nleaders. If Zuma wins re-election as head of the party, he is<br \/>\nassured of being its nominee in the 2014 presidential race and<br \/>\nwinning another five years in office.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Repeats with no change to text) By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, June 11 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling ANC is braced for a major policy conference this month after the top three international credit rating agencies said the party was sending Africa&#8217;s largest economy down the wrong path. The main concern of the African National Congress, [&hellip;]<\/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-11337","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\/11337","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=11337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}