{"id":7029,"date":"2012-01-13T20:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africa-committed-to-growth-and-job-plans-treasury\/"},"modified":"2012-01-13T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:41:04","slug":"s-africa-committed-to-growth-and-job-plans-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-committed-to-growth-and-job-plans-treasury\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa committed to growth and job plans-Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nTreasury reacted to a Fitch downgrade of the country&#8217;s outlook<br \/>\non Friday by saying it remains committed to the prudent<br \/>\nexecution of growth and policies that boost employment.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Treasury said in a statement it viewed the<br \/>\ndowngrade in the context of &#8220;the challenges that the global<br \/>\neconomy is going through and the persistent uncertainty in the<br \/>\nglobal economic environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fitch said it downgraded the outlook because it had seen<br \/>\nlimited progress on several long-standing structural issues,<br \/>\nsuch as chronic unemployment, that had caused Africa&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\neconomy to fall behind its peers.  \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)<\/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 Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Treasury reacted to a Fitch downgrade of the country&#8217;s outlook on Friday by saying it remains committed to the prudent execution of growth and policies that boost employment. The National Treasury said in a statement it viewed the downgrade in the context of &#8220;the challenges that the global [&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-7029","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\/7029","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=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}