{"id":8742,"date":"2012-03-09T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-says-has-no-plan-to-contest-wal-mart-ruling\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:01:29","slug":"s-africa-says-has-no-plan-to-contest-wal-mart-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-says-has-no-plan-to-contest-wal-mart-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa says has no plan to contest Wal-Mart ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, March 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\ngovernment has no immediate plan to contest a court ruling<br \/>\nagainst its appeal of Wal-Mart&#8217;s $2.4 billion<br \/>\nacquisition of local retailer Massmart, a senior<br \/>\nminister said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel made the comment<br \/>\nat a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Competition Appeal Court earlier on Friday shot down the<br \/>\ngovernment&#8217;s request to have the deal re-examined, although it<br \/>\ndid rule that about 500 previously fired workers should be<br \/>\nreinstated.<\/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>CAPE TOWN, March 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s government has no immediate plan to contest a court ruling against its appeal of Wal-Mart&#8217;s $2.4 billion acquisition of local retailer Massmart, a senior minister said on Friday. Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel made the comment at a media briefing. The Competition Appeal Court earlier on Friday [&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-8742","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\/8742","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=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}