{"id":968256,"date":"2024-06-30T06:11:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T06:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968256"},"modified":"2024-06-30T06:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T06:11:15","slug":"delay-in-gnu-finalisation-poses-a-risk-for-black-businesses-bbf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/delay-in-gnu-finalisation-poses-a-risk-for-black-businesses-bbf\/","title":{"rendered":"Delay in GNU finalisation poses a risk for black businesses: BBF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Black Business Federation (BBF) says the delay in finalising the Government of National Unity (GNU) poses a significant economic risk for black businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ten days have lapsed since President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated for a second term, and the new Cabinet that forms the GNU has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Federation says in a statement that the public e<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/gnu-sees-south-african-markets-in-positive-frame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xchange of letters between the DA and the ANC is also adding to investor uncertainty<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BBF has further urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to appoint visionaries to the ministries of Trade and Industry and Small Business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Federation says the current uncertainty poses a risk, particularly to black South Africans, many of whom rely on small businesses for their livelihoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">GNU Negotiations | Why is DTI so critical? Prof Bheki Mngomezulu weighs in<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KMPiwY2Q7Cs?si=iZqx1Ce4NHzSr99h\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Black Business Federation (BBF) says the delay in finalising the Government of National Unity (GNU) poses a significant economic risk for black businesses.\u00a0 Ten days have lapsed since President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated for a second term, and the new Cabinet that forms the GNU has yet to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":968257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[348,321,310,2010],"class_list":["post-968256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-black-business-federation","tag-gnu","tag-government-of-national-unity","tag-president-cyril-ramaphosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}