{"id":23713,"date":"2026-02-13T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-praises-government-efforts-to-boost-economic-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:29","slug":"sa-president-praises-government-efforts-to-boost-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-praises-government-efforts-to-boost-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President praises government efforts to boost economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed the governments work in getting SA economy to grow.<\/p>\n<p>The economy is growing at 2.1% but not at the required rate of 3.1%.<\/p>\n<p>On infrastructure a state-owned property company will be formed to manage all properties owned by the state.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa set the tone for the year on the economic achievements of his administration thus far.<\/p>\n<p>A speech dedicated to the economic landscape of the country that must be translated to growth and job creation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The economy has grown, the Rand has strengthened against the Dollar whilst the country is out of the grey listing of credit ratings agencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16437,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-23713","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Ramaphosa has hailed the governments work","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26600,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23713\/revisions\/26600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}