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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, July 30 (Reuters) – South Africa’s budget deficit was at 29.5 billion rand ($3.61 billion) in the three months to June compared to a 37.3 billion rand deficit over the same period last year, data from the Treasury showed on Monday. Revenue came to 183.7 billion rand in the first three 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-12988","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\/12988","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=12988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}JOHANNESBURG, July 30 (Reuters) - South Africa's budget deficit was at 29.5\nbillion rand ($3.61 billion) in the three months to June compared to a 37.3\nbillion rand deficit over the same period last year, data from the Treasury\nshowed on Monday. \n Revenue came to 183.7 billion rand in the first three months of the 2012\/13\nyear begun in April, against expenditure of 213.2 billion rand. \n The table below indicates revenue and expenditure for June, cumulative data\nfor April to June and comparable figures for the previous year. \n Revenue and expenditure for the fiscal year to date are also expressed as\npercentages of the budget estimate for 2012\/13 and the preliminary outcome for\n2011\/12. \n \n REVENUE June April-June Pct of Budget estimate\/ \n \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln preliminary outcome \n 2012\/13 93.631 183.705 23.0% \n 2011\/12 82.2 161.274 21.8% \n \n EXPENDITURE June April-June Pct of Budget estimate\/ \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln preliminary outcome \n 2012\/13 75.443 213.173 22.0% \n 2011\/12 69.643 198.53 22.3% \n ($1 = 8.1765 South African rand)\n\n (Reporting by Xola Potelwa)<\/pre>\n