{"id":6882,"date":"2012-01-10T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T06:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T06:32:02","slug":"factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Key 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> Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nPresident Jacob Zuma is expected to lay out plans to tackle<br \/>\nchronic joblessness, fix a broken school system and end rampant<br \/>\ncorruption in the continent&#8217;s largest economy when he delivers<br \/>\nhis State of the Union address in February.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But after more than two years of a leadership widely seen as<br \/>\nineffective, few expect Zuma to do more than pay lip service to<br \/>\ngrowing problems that have eroded economic competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Making things worse is legislation pending in parliament<br \/>\nwhich a prominent study said would drive up unemployment and<br \/>\nmake labour more costly.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Concerns have been raised at home and abroad over a state<br \/>\nsecrecy law that parliament approved late last year that would<br \/>\nmake it easier to cover up corruption by jailing those who try<br \/>\nto expose it through releasing classified documents.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zuma, facing re-election as leader of the ruling African<br \/>\nNational Congress at the end of the year, wants to keep his<br \/>\npowerful labour allies happy, and will make sure pro-business<br \/>\nreforms that economists say are desperately needed, are kept on<br \/>\nice.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the rand has weakened severely against the<br \/>\ndollar, stoking worries of inflation as imports become more<br \/>\ncostly for a country that relies heavily on imports.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>EXPENSIVE LABOUR<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 Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s President Jacob Zuma is expected to lay out plans to tackle chronic joblessness, fix a broken school system and end rampant corruption in the continent&#8217;s largest economy when he delivers his State of the Union address in February. But after more than two years of [&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-6882","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\/6882","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=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}