{"id":117836,"date":"2023-11-03T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=117836"},"modified":"2023-11-03T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:44:08","slug":"godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=117836","title":{"rendered":"Godongwana delivers bad news, but government has a plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has painted a sobering picture of the nation\u2019s financial health \u2013 a country faced with mounting fiscal challenges with rising deficits and soaring government debts. Godongwana was delivering his medium-term budget statement in parliament in Cape Town on Wednesday. Projected budget He said the country is now projecting a budget deficit [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has painted a sobering picture of the nation\u2019s financial health \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan.jpg",696,464,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan.jpg",696,464,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan.jpg",696,464,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan.jpg",696,464,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan.jpg",696,464,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/117836-godongwana-delivers-bad-news-but-government-has-a-plan-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}