{"id":304156,"date":"2019-03-08T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T04:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=304156"},"modified":"2019-03-07T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:54:46","slug":"fnbs-thoughts-on-the-budget-speech-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/304156\/fnbs-thoughts-on-the-budget-speech-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB&#8217;s thoughts on the Budget Speech 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Budget Speech is a highly anticipated event every year, and every year South Africans hope to hear how the government will work towards amplifying the country&#8217;s ranking in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doingbusiness.org\/content\/dam\/doingBusiness\/country\/s\/south-africa\/ZAF.pdf\"><strong>The World Bank\u2019s annual Doing Business Report<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year even more so, as the country struggles with rising expenditure, failing SOEs and declining revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Finance minister Tito Mboweni recently delivered his 2019 budget speech, outlining the state of South Africa\u2019s finances, and where the government will spend its money in the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below to find out what FNB&#8217;s panel of experts Chantal Marx, Siphamandla Mkhwanazi, and Ester Ochse thought of this year&#8217;s Budget Speech. #FNBBudgetSpeech2019<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0_nvUzKzTbM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the video in this post to find out what FNB experts thought about the 2019 Budget Speech. #FNBBudgetSpeech2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":300756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[76,26],"class_list":["post-304156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-fnb","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304156","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304178,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304156\/revisions\/304178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}