{"id":294396,"date":"2019-01-21T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=294396"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T07:51:41","slug":"south-africa-declined-zimbabwe-1-2-billion-loan-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/294396\/south-africa-declined-zimbabwe-1-2-billion-loan-request\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa declined Zimbabwe $1.2 billion loan request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa declined Zimbabwe\u2019s request to borrow $1.2 billion, the National Treasury said.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s northern neighbor made the request for a rescue package in December, Jabulani Sikhakhane, a spokesman for the Pretoria-based Treasury, said by phone Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africa doesn\u2019t have the money to provide that kind of assistance,\u201d Sikhakhane said.<\/p>\n<p>Hopes of an economic revival in Zimbabwe lie in tatters 14 months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa took office, as the nation reels from foreign-exchange and fuel shortages, strikes and a dearth of political leadership.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/294342\/south-africa-looking-at-bailout-for-zimbabwe-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa looking at bailout for Zimbabwe: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa declined Zimbabwe\u2019s request to borrow $1.2 billion, the National Treasury said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":242537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-294396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294396","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294400,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294396\/revisions\/294400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}