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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, June 29 (Reuters) – South Africa’s budget shortfall was at 47.7 billion rand ($5.8 billion) in the two months to May compared to a 49.8 billion rand deficit over the same period last year, data from the Treasury showed on Friday. Revenue came to 90.1 billion rand in the first two months of the […]<\/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-11977","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\/11977","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=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}JOHANNESBURG, June 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's budget shortfall was at 47.7 billion rand\n($5.8 billion) in the two months to May compared to a 49.8 billion rand deficit over the same\nperiod last year, data from the Treasury showed on Friday. \n Revenue came to 90.1 billion rand in the first two months of the 2012\/13 year begun in\nApril, against expenditure of 137.7 billion rand. \n The table below indicates revenue and expenditure for May, cumulative data for April and May\nand comparable figures for the previous year. \n Revenue and expenditure for the fiscal year to date are also expressed as percentages of the\nestimate for 2012\/13 and the preliminary outcome for 2011\/12. \n\n REVENUE May April-May Pct of Revised\/ \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln preliminary outcome \n 2012\/13 50.643 90.074 11.3 % \n 2011\/12 42.076 79.074 10.7% \n \n EXPENDITURE May April-May Pct of Revised estimate\/ \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln preliminary outcome \n 2012\/13 71.902 137.730 14.2% \n 2011\/12 66.303 128.887 14.5% \n ($1 = 8.1960 South African rand)\n\n (Reporting by Xola Potelwa)<\/pre>\n