{"id":7830,"date":"2012-02-10T01:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africas-zuma-promises-competitive-mining-sector\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T01:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:51:41","slug":"s-africas-zuma-promises-competitive-mining-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-zuma-promises-competitive-mining-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Zuma promises &quot;competitive&quot; mining sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South African<br \/>\nPresident Jacob Zuma on Thursday promised to keep the country&#8217;s<br \/>\npowerful mining sector &#8220;globally competitive&#8221;, the latest<br \/>\ncomment from a senior government official to knock down the<br \/>\nprospects of nationalising the mines.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his annual State of the Nation address, Zuma also pledged<br \/>\na 300 billion rand ($40 billion), seven-year investment plan for<br \/>\nstate rail and logistics company Transnet to help it increase<br \/>\nthe shipping of iron ore and coal for export.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous years, he gave no projections for the budget<br \/>\ndeficit or growth in Africa&#8217;s largest economy.<br \/>\n ($1 = 7.5810 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; 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 Feb 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday promised to keep the country&#8217;s powerful mining sector &#8220;globally competitive&#8221;, the latest comment from a senior government official to knock down the prospects of nationalising the mines. In his annual State of the Nation address, Zuma also pledged a 300 billion rand ($40 [&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-7830","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\/7830","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=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}