{"id":12681,"date":"2012-07-23T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/s-africa-2012-growth-likely-to-miss-2-7-pct-gordhan\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:19:30","slug":"s-africa-2012-growth-likely-to-miss-2-7-pct-gordhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-2012-growth-likely-to-miss-2-7-pct-gordhan\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa 2012 growth likely to miss 2.7 pct -Gordhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 23<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s economic<br \/>\ngrowth this year is likely to miss the government&#8217;s current<br \/>\nforecast of 2.7 percent, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on<br \/>\nMonday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know what the precise numbers are but certainly<br \/>\nthe current indications are that growth is likely to be below<br \/>\n2.7 percent,&#8221; Gordhan told Reuters on the sidelines of a<br \/>\nconference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The central bank on Thursday trimmed its growth forecast to<br \/>\n2.7 percent from 2.9 percent, in line with the National<br \/>\nTreasury, but warned that the risks to the forecasts were on the<br \/>\ndownside if there was more widespread global downturn.<\/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, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s economic growth this year is likely to miss the government&#8217;s current forecast of 2.7 percent, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know what the precise numbers are but certainly the current indications are that growth is likely to be below 2.7 percent,&#8221; Gordhan told Reuters [&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-12681","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\/12681","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=12681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}