{"id":14170,"date":"2012-05-31T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T08:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=14170"},"modified":"2012-05-31T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T08:37:42","slug":"government-considers-sanral-cash-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/14170\/government-considers-sanral-cash-injection\/","title":{"rendered":"Government considers Sanral cash injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering introducing an appropriations bill to give <a title=\"SANRAL - South African National Roads Association Limited\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1722-SANRAL-South-African-National-Roads-Association-Limited\">Sanral<\/a> a cash injection to allow it to service its R20 billion debt, Deputy President <a title=\"Kgalema Motlanthe\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/428847-Kgalema-Motlanthe\">Kgalema Motlanthe<\/a> said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to meet the SA National Roads Agency Ltd&#8217;s debt repayments while the legal battle over e-tolling in Gauteng continued would have dire consequences for the roads agency and the country, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government has to look at other ways of servicing that debt, which means taking away money from other allocation&#8230; hence the consideration of introducing this special bill to enable government to continue keeping Sanral in a healthy state of servicing the debt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He sidestepped a question on how much money would be allocated to Sanral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering introducing an appropriations bill to give Sanral a cash injection to allow it to service its R20 billion debt, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,2985,429],"class_list":["post-14170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-kgalema-motlanthe","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14173,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions\/14173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}