{"id":43997,"date":"2012-02-22T19:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=43997"},"modified":"2012-02-23T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T09:04:21","slug":"no-vat-for-ska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/43997-no-vat-for-ska.html","title":{"rendered":"No VAT for SKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister <a title=\"Pravin Gordhan\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314269-Pravin-Gordhan\">Pravin Gordhan<\/a> on Wednesday announced that the <a title=\"The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313503-The-Square-Kilometre-Array-(SKA)\">Square Kilometre Array<\/a> radio telescope would qualify for VAT relief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy to confirm that the project will qualify for VAT relief, which will surely give <a title=\"Naledi Pandor\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/337747-Naledi-Pandor\">[Science Minister Naledi] Pandor<\/a> the winning edge in this contest,&#8221; he said in his budget speech in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa and Australia have been short-listed to build the Euro 1.5 billion telescope. The winner will be announced on April 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Wednesday announced that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope would qualify for VAT relief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":28572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,4198,1239],"class_list":["post-43997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-pravin-gordhan","tag-ska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43999,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43997\/revisions\/43999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}