{"id":11003,"date":"2018-03-15T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11003"},"modified":"2018-04-17T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T07:00:18","slug":"mbalo-brief-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11003","title":{"rendered":"Mbalo Brief &#8211; March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will host 10th Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) Summit which is scheduled from 25 to 27 July 2018. The 2018 Summit will be an important milestone for BRICS cooperation, as it represents a decade of BRICS cooperation at the highest diplomatic level. The summit will see South Africa building on the programme of development and prosperity for partner countries. The official BRICS Summit website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BRICS2018.org.za\">www.BRICS2018.org.za<\/a> was launched as the first point of contact for the latest information on the Summit for both domestic and international users. This will include, amongst others, information about BRICS, the member countries, the host country and province, logistics and side events.<br \/>\nIn this month\u2019s issue of Mbalo Brief, our educational article is based on the Early Childhood Development, derived from the Education Series Volume IV: Early Childhood Development in South Africa, 2016. Also have a look at our monthly crossword puzzle and solutions for February 2018 puzzle.<br \/>\nArticles published in this issue are based on results of industry surveys conducted for the months ranging from December 2017 to January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mbalo-Brief-March-2018.pdf\">Mbalo Brief \u2013 March 2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will host 10th Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) Summit which is scheduled from 25 to 27 July 2018. The 2018 Summit will be an important milestone for BRICS cooperation, as it represents a decade of BRICS cooperation at the highest diplomatic level. The summit will see South Africa building on&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11003\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mbalo-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11003"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11091,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions\/11091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}