{"id":13385,"date":"2012-08-10T14:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T14:20:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:20:41","slug":"factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Political risks to watch in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling ANC<br \/>\nis preparing for a major conference at the end of the year with<br \/>\nconcerns growing that its policies are failing Africa&#8217;s largest<br \/>\neconomy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress &#8211; which dominates the<br \/>\npolitical scene &#8211; looks set to confer another leadership term on<br \/>\nPresident Jacob Zuma when it holds elections at the end of the<br \/>\nyear, setting him up to remain president until 2019.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This scenario worries economists who feel his administration<br \/>\nwill allow problems &#8211; which include a broken education system, a<br \/>\nrigid labour market and rampant corruption &#8211; to fester, with<br \/>\nrisks mounting the longer he remains in power.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NATIONALISATION<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ANC has kept investors guessing for years about whether<br \/>\nit will take control of parts of the mining industry,<br \/>\nundermining confidence in a sector that accounts for about 6<br \/>\npercent of GDP and employs about half a million people.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some in the ruling party want to see coal deemed a<br \/>\n&#8220;strategic asset&#8221;, which could hinder exports, and return<br \/>\nstruggling fixed-line operator Telkom to government<br \/>\ncontrol, allowing Pretoria to dictate the country&#8217;s Internet<br \/>\ninfrastructure build-out.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What to watch:<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling ANC is preparing for a major conference at the end of the year with concerns growing that its policies are failing Africa&#8217;s largest economy. The African National Congress &#8211; which dominates the political scene &#8211; looks set to confer another leadership term on President [&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-13385","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\/13385","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=13385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}