{"id":6844,"date":"2012-02-28T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:25:06","slug":"sa-economy-grows-3-2-in-q4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/6844\/sa-economy-grows-3-2-in-q4\/","title":{"rendered":"SA economy grows 3.2% in Q4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s economy expanded to a growth rate of 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011, Statistics SA said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This was up from a revised 1.7% in the previous quarter, said Gerhardt Bouwer, executive manager national accounts at Statistics SA in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>The largest contributors to growth were the trade industries &#8211; wholesale, retail and motor, catering and accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by the manufacturing industry and general government services.<\/p>\n<p>The first preliminary estimate of growth for 2011 was 3.1%, Bouwer said.<\/p>\n<p>This was an improvement on 2010&#8217;s growth rate of 2.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s economy expanded to a growth rate of 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011, Statistics SA said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,1740,1739],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-economy","tag-statistics-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}