{"id":146567,"date":"2016-12-08T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T09:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=146567"},"modified":"2016-12-08T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T09:11:42","slug":"the-uk-is-looking-to-south-africa-post-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/146567\/the-uk-is-looking-to-south-africa-post-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK is looking to South Africa post-Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Finance Minister Philip Hammond\u00a0 pledged millions of pounds in aid for South Africa’s developmental programmes, following talks with the country’s top political and business leaders.<\/p>\n

“As Britain leaves the EU, we will be deepening our work with our international partners to build ever stronger economic links around the world,” he said in a statement issued by the British embassy.<\/p>\n

“South Africa is a key strategic partner for the UK in Africa and internationally and we are determined to see that go from strength to strength.”<\/p>\n

Hammond who held discussions with Pravin Gordhan, and International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane believes that the two countries will achieve this by working together to “tackle barriers to trade and growth, increase competitiveness and improve ease of doing business”.<\/p>\n

South Africa is currently Britain’s biggest export market in Africa, with trade between the two countries reaching nearly 8 Billion pounds in 2015.<\/p>\n

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British Finance Minister Philip Hammond pledged millions of pounds in aid for South Africa’s developmental programmes yesterday, following talks with the country’s top political and business leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":94025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-146567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146567","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146579,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146567\/revisions\/146579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}