{"id":14341,"date":"2012-09-06T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africas-aug-business-confidence-recovers\/"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:51:03","slug":"s-africas-aug-business-confidence-recovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-aug-business-confidence-recovers\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Aug business confidence recovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, Sept 6<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Business confidence in<br \/>\nSouth Africa rebounded to a five-month high in August mainly as<br \/>\nsentiment about real economic activity improved in the month<br \/>\nregardless of labour clashes in the mining sector, a survey<br \/>\nshowed on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Business Confidence Index (BCI) rose 4.1 points to 95 in<br \/>\nAugust, climbing out of its previous 12-month low in July, data<br \/>\nfrom the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI)<br \/>\nshowed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SACCI said diversity in the South African economy made it<br \/>\nless vulnerable to specific events, such as the platinum sector<br \/>\nstrife in which 44 people were killed last month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However the business group said it was concerned about the<br \/>\nnegative investor sentiment related to the mining sector.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the sector remains under severe operational and<br \/>\ncompetitive pressures, mines are also burdened by the militant<br \/>\nlabour behaviour that undermines the sector&#8217;s investment<br \/>\nappeal,&#8221; it said.<\/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, Sept 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Business confidence in South Africa rebounded to a five-month high in August mainly as sentiment about real economic activity improved in the month regardless of labour clashes in the mining sector, a survey showed on Thursday. The Business Confidence Index (BCI) rose 4.1 points to 95 in August, climbing out [&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-14341","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\/14341","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=14341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}