{"id":186881,"date":"2025-10-09T01:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186881\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:38:13","slug":"south-african-cities-in-death-spiral-deputy-finance-chief-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186881\/","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":186882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,21322,8790,62,1294,80,1431,464,1086,50857,229,4247,56,54,55,12556],"class_list":["post-186881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cape-town","tag-cities","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-inflation","tag-infrastructure","tag-investing","tag-johannesburg","tag-politics","tag-south-africa","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}