{"id":17043,"date":"2012-08-22T09:05:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T08:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=17043"},"modified":"2012-08-22T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T08:05:19","slug":"social-tensions-are-rising-in-south-africa-barclays-want-to-increase-its-stake-in-the-country-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/08\/22\/social-tensions-are-rising-in-south-africa-barclays-want-to-increase-its-stake-in-the-country-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Social tensions are rising in South Africa. Barclays want to increase its stake in the country. Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/5f9e0490-eb5d-11e1-9356-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fcompanies_africa%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct&amp;ftcamp=crm\/email\/2012822\/nbe\/AfricaSubSaharaBusiness\/product#axzz24G87hz7p:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports this morning that Barclays<\/a> is seeking to increase its stake in and control over its long controversial South African operations.<\/p>\n<p>Those, like me, who learned their politics in the student world of the 1970s well remember all that Barclays stood for then.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa's social tensions are rising.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption in the country\u00a0appears to be growing.<\/p>\n<p>Strikers are shot.<\/p>\n<p>And Barclays wants a bigger slice of the action.<\/p>\n<p>Not again, surely?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT reports this morning that Barclays is seeking to increase its stake in and control over its long controversial South African operations. Those, like<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/08\/22\/social-tensions-are-rising-in-south-africa-barclays-want-to-increase-its-stake-in-the-country-coincidence\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barclays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}