{"id":8748,"date":"2012-03-09T15:01:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/wal-mart-wins-final-go-ahead-in-massmart-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T15:01:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:01:35","slug":"wal-mart-wins-final-go-ahead-in-massmart-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wal-mart-wins-final-go-ahead-in-massmart-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart wins final go-ahead in Massmart deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; A South African court on Friday<br \/>\nlargely dismissed an appeal from government and unions to roll<br \/>\nback approval for Wal-Mart&#8217;s $2.4 billion acquisition of<br \/>\nMassmart, ending months of speculation about the future<br \/>\nof the deal.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Competition Appeal Court ruled against the government&#8217;s<br \/>\nappeal to have the deal set aside, but partially upheld a<br \/>\nseparate union appeal and said about 500 previously fired<br \/>\nworkers must be re-instated.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ruling is likely to be seen as a victory for Wal-Mart in<br \/>\nits plans to expand in fast-growing Africa.<\/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 (Reuters) &#8211; A South African court on Friday largely dismissed an appeal from government and unions to roll back approval for Wal-Mart&#8217;s $2.4 billion acquisition of Massmart, ending months of speculation about the future of the deal. The Competition Appeal Court ruled against the government&#8217;s appeal to have the deal set aside, but [&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-8748","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\/8748","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=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}