{"id":68721,"date":"2025-10-09T04:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/68721\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T04:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:53:25","slug":"south-african-cities-in-death-spiral-deputy-finance-chief-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/68721\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Cities in Death Spiral, Deputy Finance Chief Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">South Africa\u2019s main municipalities, with the exception of Cape Town, are in a \u201cdeath spiral,\u201d spending way too much money on administrative staff and too little on maintaining and building infrastructure, a deputy finance minister warned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cSalary bills have grown much faster than inflation, faster than revenue and far faster than service outputs,\u201d Ashor Sarupen told the Cape Town Press Club on Wednesday. \u201cThe result is a state that looks busy, that delivers less, consuming more in salaries and symbolism, while investing less in infrastructure that actually keeps our cities alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s main municipalities, with the exception of Cape Town, are in a \u201cdeath spiral,\u201d spending way too&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,46446,4800,18478,113,1523,61,1095,4082,1831,60,20596,1650,257,18603],"class_list":{"0":"post-68721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cape-town","10":"tag-cities","11":"tag-economic-growth","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-inflation","16":"tag-infrastructure","17":"tag-investing","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-johannesburg","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-south-africa","22":"tag-utilities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}