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\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JOHANNESBURG, Dec 30 (Reuters) – South Africa’s budget deficit was wider at 142.206 billion rand ($17.36 billion)in the first eight months of the 2011\/12 financial year compared with a 135.046 billion rand shortfall in the same period last year, data showed on Friday. The National Treasury said in a statement posted on its website revenue […]<\/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-6544","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\/6544","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=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}JOHANNESBURG, Dec 30 (Reuters) - South Africa's budget\ndeficit was wider at 142.206 billion rand ($17.36 billion)in the\nfirst eight months of the 2011\/12 financial year compared with a\n135.046 billion rand shortfall in the same period last year,\ndata showed on Friday.\t\n The National Treasury said in a statement posted on its\nwebsite revenue amounted to nearly 425 billion rand in\nApril-November against expenditure of about 567 billion rand.\t\n The government collected slightly over 388 billion rand in\nrevenue during the same period in 2010\/11 while expenditure came\nto 524 billion rand.\t\n In its three-year medium term fiscal framework in October, \t\nthe National Treasury said the budget deficit for the 2011\/12 \t\nfinancial year would widen to 5.5 percent of gross domestic\nproduct from 5.0 percent in the previous year. \t\n This was slightly wider than the 5.3 percent deficit\nforecast in February for the 2011\/12 year. \t\n \t\nREVENUE \t\n Nov Yr-to-date % of Revised estimate\/ \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln Audited Outcome \n 2011\/12 50.825 424.762 59.1% \n 2010\/11 43.562 388.462 58.0% \n \t\nEXPENDITURE \t\n Nov Yr-to-date % of Revised estimate\/ \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln Audited Outcome \n 2011\/12 79.407 566.968 63.8% \n 2010\/11 70.534 523.508 65.0% \n ($1 = 8.1900 South African rand)\t\n\t\n (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa)<\/pre>\n