{"id":11698,"date":"2012-06-21T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/s-africa-spending-growth-slows-to-4-3-pct-in-q1\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:37:44","slug":"s-africa-spending-growth-slows-to-4-3-pct-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-spending-growth-slows-to-4-3-pct-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa spending growth slows to 4.3 pct in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 21<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Spending growth in South<br \/>\nAfrica slowed to 4.3 percent in the first quarter of this year,<br \/>\ncompared with 5.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, as both<br \/>\ngovernment and households tightened purse strings.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Household debt to disposable income inched lower to 74.7<br \/>\npercent from a slightly revised 74.8 percent in the fourth<br \/>\nquarter.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Spending growth in South Africa slowed to 4.3 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared with 5.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, as both government and households tightened purse strings. Household debt to disposable income inched lower to 74.7 percent from a slightly revised 74.8 percent [&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-11698","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\/11698","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=11698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}