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\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JOHANNESBURG, Feb 29 (Reuters) – South Africa’s budget deficit was wider at 144 billion rand ($19.12 billion) in the first nine months of the financial year ending March 2012 compared with a 139.7 billion rand shortfall the same period previously, data from the Treasury showed on Wednesday. Revenue was at 578 billion rand in April-January […]<\/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-8455","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\/8455","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=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}JOHANNESBURG, Feb 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's budget\ndeficit was wider at 144 billion rand ($19.12 billion) in the\nfirst nine months of the financial year ending March 2012\ncompared with a 139.7 billion rand shortfall the same period\npreviously, data from the Treasury showed on Wednesday.\t\n Revenue was at 578 billion rand in April-January \t\nagainst expenditure of about 722 billion rand. \t\n In its budget last week, the Treasury forecast a budget\ndeficit of 4.8 percent of GDP for 2011\/12, narrowing to 4.6\npercent in 2012\/13. \t\n The table below indicates revenue and expenditure for\nJanuary, the period April-January, and comparable figures for\nthe previous year. Revenue and expenditure for the fiscal year\nto date are also expressed as percentages of the revised\nestimate for 2011\/12 and the audited outcome for 2010\/11. \t\n \t\nREVENUE \t\n January April-Jan Pct of estimate\/ \n \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln audited outcome \n \n 2011\/12 51.231 578.058 80.4% \n 2010\/11 47.934 519.638 77.6% \n \t\nEXPENDITURE \t\n January April-Jan Pct of estimate\/ \n \n Fiscal year R'bln R'bln audited outcome \n \n 2011\/12 73.969 722.061 81.3% \n 2010\/11 58.637 659.317 81.9% \n ($1 = 7.5305 South African rand)\t\n\t\n (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa)<\/pre>\n