{"id":1433,"date":"2020-02-27T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T08:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/2020\/02\/27\/national-budget-speech-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T08:05:59","slug":"national-budget-speech-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/2020\/02\/27\/national-budget-speech-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"National Budget Speech 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1432\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/budget-speech2020.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left; width: 500px; height: 281px;\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/budget-speech2020.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/budget-speech2020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/budget-speech2020-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/budget-speech2020-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>Our economy has won before, and it will win again.<\/div>\n<div>Before democracy our growth was pedestrian. Indeed, between 1990 and 1992, the economy contracted for three years in a row.<\/div>\n<div>In the fifteen years following democracy, economic growth averaged 3.6 per cent a year. The gross debt-to-GDP ratio declined from 46 per cent to 26 per cent.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Now, even after a decade of weak economic performance, South Africa still boasts deep and liquid capital markets, strong institutions, the most diversified economy on the continent, and a young population.<\/p>\n<p>We are part of the most vibrant continent in the world.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" data-dropfilesfile=\"33\" data-dropfilesfilecategory=\"104\" data-file=\"33\" src=\"\/dedat\/components\/com_dropfiles\/assets\/images\/t.gif\" style=\"background: url(\/dedat\/components\/com_dropfiles\/assets\/images\/file_download.png) no-repeat scroll center center #D6D6D6;border: 2px dashed #888888;height: 100px;border-radius: 10px;width: 99%;\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our economy has won before, and it will win again. Before democracy our growth was pedestrian. Indeed, between 1990 and 1992, the economy contracted for three years in a row. In the fifteen years following democracy, economic growth averaged 3.6 per cent a year. The gross debt-to-GDP ratio declined from 46 per cent to 26<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/2020\/02\/27\/national-budget-speech-2020\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dedat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}