{"id":8191,"date":"2012-02-22T02:23:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/corrected-corruption-puts-strain-on-south-africa-budget\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T02:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:23:44","slug":"corrected-corruption-puts-strain-on-south-africa-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/corrected-corruption-puts-strain-on-south-africa-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTED-Corruption puts strain on South Africa budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zuma seen failing to crack down on graft<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Estimates of billions wasted, lost to corruption<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ruling ANC under fire from its labour allies<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Stella Mapenzauswa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Lucas Netshiavha<br \/>\nfeels resentful whenever he sees the slice of his salary taken<br \/>\nby South Africa&#8217;s taxman, since &#8211; so he believes &#8211; a large chunk<br \/>\nwill end up in the pockets of corrupt politicians or be washed<br \/>\ndown the drain of state mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t mind so much if my &#8216;donation&#8217; was properly spent<br \/>\non education, medicine in hospitals or to help my grandmother<br \/>\nback in my home village, but I have serious doubts that&#8217;s<br \/>\nhappening,&#8221; the IT specialist said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Netshiavha is well paid, but his pay packet is split between<br \/>\nhis widowed mother and two siblings, and his fears of wasted<br \/>\ntaxes and creeping corruption under President Jacob Zuma are not<br \/>\nunfounded.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since he came to office in 2009, Zuma has come under fire<br \/>\nfor what many see as a failure to crack down on officials<br \/>\nimplicated in misappropriating billions of dollars in state<br \/>\nfunds.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Zuma seen failing to crack down on graft * Estimates of billions wasted, lost to corruption * Ruling ANC under fire from its labour allies By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG, Feb 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Lucas Netshiavha feels resentful whenever he sees the slice of his salary taken by South Africa&#8217;s taxman, since &#8211; so he [&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-8191","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\/8191","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=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}