{"id":31143,"date":"2026-04-08T16:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31143"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:38:29","slug":"us-signals-multi-billion-dollar-investment-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-signals-multi-billion-dollar-investment-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"US signals multi-billion Dollar investment in SA \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States (US) is looking to invest billions of Dollars in South Africa (SA), even as tensions between the two countries persist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Pretoria after presenting his credentials to President Cyril Ramaphosa, US Ambassador-designate Brent Bozell said Washington is ready to increase its investment footprint.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are billions upon billions of Dollars that we want to invest in this country,\u201d he said, adding that both government and private sector funds are being considered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Bozell made it clear that concerns remain, particularly around the protection of private property, which he described as a key issue for US investors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31144,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-31143","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"US is looking to invest billions of Dollars in South Africa","published_date":"2026-04-08 16:09:26","news_description":"US is looking to invest billions of Dollars in South Africa","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31143","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\/31143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31145,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31143\/revisions\/31145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}