{"id":12301,"date":"2012-07-11T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/s-africas-business-confidence-recovers-slightly-in-june\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:28:21","slug":"s-africas-business-confidence-recovers-slightly-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-business-confidence-recovers-slightly-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s business confidence recovers slightly in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s business<br \/>\nconfidence improved marginally in June from a 10-year low the<br \/>\nprevious month, although big clouds remain on the economic<br \/>\nhorizon, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry<br \/>\n(SACCI) said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The confidence index rose 2.1 points to 94.9 in June,<br \/>\nalthough SACCI said the recovery was overshadowed by the<br \/>\nuncertain global environment and South Africa would do well to<br \/>\nsort out policy uncertainties that are weighing on business.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Proposed laws that look set to maintain South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nrelatively rigid labour market were particularly worrying, SACCI<br \/>\nchief executive Neren Rau told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The labour bills which are before parliament are of deep<br \/>\nconcern in the environment and we&#8217;re also concerned about the<br \/>\ninflexibility of our labour market in comparison with our<br \/>\nemerging market peers,&#8221; Rau said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world is growing less tolerant of too many mixed<br \/>\nmessages. Spectators and investors want clear messages to be<br \/>\nsent out, and South Africa is not doing too well on that front.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa and Xola Potelwa)<\/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, July 11 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s business confidence improved marginally in June from a 10-year low the previous month, although big clouds remain on the economic horizon, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) said on Wednesday. The confidence index rose 2.1 points to 94.9 in June, although SACCI said the recovery [&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-12301","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\/12301","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=12301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}