{"id":70319,"date":"2014-10-06T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=70319"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T09:26:26","slug":"new-reserve-bank-governor-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/70319\/new-reserve-bank-governor-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New Reserve Bank governor announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy SA Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago will succeed Gill Marcus as governor, President Jacob Zuma announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my pleasure today to announce my decision to appoint Mr Lesetja Kganyago,&#8221; Zuma said in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP1\">Kganyago vowed not to let the country down, and thanked Zuma and the country for their trust in him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got no doubt that eyes will be on me and I want to say I will not disappoint,&#8221; he said in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;I do not take this task for granted,&#8221; he said, adding that he would continue where Gill Marcus had left off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">He was one of two of Marcus&#8217;s deputies, alongside Daniel Mminele.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Marcus would vacate the position on November 8 and Kganyago would assume duties the next day.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the economy<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Repo rate remains unchanged\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/68919\/repo-rate-remains-unchanged-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Repo rate remains unchanged<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa\u2019s economy slows to a crawl\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/57497\/south-africas-economy-slows-to-a-crawl\/\"><strong>South Africa\u2019s economy slows to a crawl<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA economy heading for recession: economist\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/60185\/sa-economy-heading-for-recession-economist\/\"><strong>SA economy heading for recession: economist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy SA Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago will succeed Gill Marcus as governor, President Jacob Zuma announced on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,1492,8927,2924],"class_list":["post-70319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-gill-marcus","tag-lesetja-kganyago","tag-reserve-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70319","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=70319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70323,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70319\/revisions\/70323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}