{"id":114155,"date":"2016-02-24T12:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114155\/7-things-to-expect-from-the-budget-speech\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:13:15","slug":"7-things-to-expect-from-the-budget-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/24\/7-things-to-expect-from-the-budget-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"7 things to expect from the budget speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is under a alot\u00a0of pressure today to deliver one of the most important budget speeches since he has been re-instated. With the worst drought to hit South Africa in more than a century, slow economic growth, the plummeting rand and commodity prices plunging, Gordhan faces a very tough\u00a0challenge ahead. Here are a few things we can expect him to address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/02\/untitled-infographic-251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97437\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/02\/untitled-infographic-251.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-infographic 25)1\" width=\"600\" height=\"1038\" \/><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='61e914b661f0d310c33e5c7b62cd3d31'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will deliver a difficult and important budget speech today. Here are a few things we can expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":114156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[3174,3611,9978,9461,3915,9979,9462,9980,6554,9981,9982,9983,1029,9984,9985],"class_list":["post-114155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-anc","tag-budget-speech","tag-finance-minister","tag-food-prices","tag-government","tag-income","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rates","tag-parliament","tag-paye","tag-pravin-gordhan","tag-reserve-bank","tag-sars","tag-sin-tax","tag-taxes"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["anc","Budget Speech","finance minister","Food prices","government","income","inflation","interest rates","parliament","PAYE","pravin gordhan","Reserve Bank","SARS","sin tax","taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}