{"id":7860,"date":"2012-02-10T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-3-s-africas-zuma-squashes-mine-nationalisation-talk\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T11:55:57","slug":"update-3-s-africas-zuma-squashes-mine-nationalisation-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-africas-zuma-squashes-mine-nationalisation-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.Africa&#8217;s Zuma squashes mine nationalisation talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Says South Africa policy is mixed economy<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Nationalisation &#8220;cannot be policy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Targeted nationalisation still on cards &#8211; lawyer<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC Youth League rebel stays defiant over nationalisation<\/p>\n<p> (Adds Malema comments)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tiisetso Motsoeneng and Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) &#8211; President Jacob Zuma<br \/>\nsquashed more than two years of talk on Friday about the<br \/>\nnationalisation of South Africa&#8217;s massive mining sector, saying<br \/>\nstate control or ownership of the mines in the world&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\nplatinum producer could not work.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked during a televised breakfast briefing if the<br \/>\ngovernment planned to nationalise mines, Zuma said emphatically:<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re very clear. It is not our policy. We&#8217;ve been saying this<br \/>\ninside the country, outside the country. It cannot be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have answered this question many times. We are very<br \/>\nclear,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Our policy is mixed economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Coming at the end of a week in which two senior ministers<br \/>\ndismissed nationalisation as unviable and the ruling ANC<br \/>\nreleased a study describing it as an &#8220;unmitigated disaster&#8221;,<br \/>\nZuma&#8217;s comments lay to rest two years of debate that hit South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s image as an investor-friendly emerging market.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Says South Africa policy is mixed economy * Nationalisation &#8220;cannot be policy&#8221; * Targeted nationalisation still on cards &#8211; lawyer * ANC Youth League rebel stays defiant over nationalisation (Adds Malema comments) By Tiisetso Motsoeneng and Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) &#8211; President Jacob Zuma squashed more than two years of talk on [&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-7860","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\/7860","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=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}