{"id":9412,"date":"2012-03-29T03:36:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-treasury-disagrees-with-sp-assessment\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T03:36:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:36:58","slug":"s-africa-treasury-disagrees-with-sp-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-treasury-disagrees-with-sp-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa Treasury disagrees with S&amp;P assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 28<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa disagrees<br \/>\nwith SP&#8217;s assessment of the political risk in the country, and<br \/>\npolitical debate should not be confused with instability, the<br \/>\nTreasury said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ratings agency SP downgraded the country&#8217;s outlook to<br \/>\nnegative from stable, saying this reflected the potential for a<br \/>\nratings downgrade if economic and social problems fed into the<br \/>\npolitical debate ahead of 2014 elections.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Political debate and a vigorous exchange of ideas on policy<br \/>\noptions are part and parcel of the fibre of a democratic<br \/>\ndispensation. This cannot be construed as political<br \/>\ninstability,&#8221; the Treasury said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG, March 28 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa disagrees with SP&#8217;s assessment of the political risk in the country, and political debate should not be confused with instability, the Treasury said on Wednesday. The ratings agency SP downgraded the country&#8217;s outlook to negative from stable, saying this reflected the potential for a ratings downgrade if economic [&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-9412","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\/9412","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=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}