{"id":18838,"date":"2025-10-03T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=18838"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:43:43","slug":"stats-biz-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=18838","title":{"rendered":"Stats Biz \u2013 September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Municipal debt figures can be sliced and diced in several ways. The debt-to-income ratio is one of many indicators used to gauge the financial health of municipalities, helping to answer the question of whether a municipality has the capacity to repay its debt from its income. Explore municipal debt, as well as other stories, in this edition of Stats Biz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/StatsBiz_September2025.pdf\">Download Stats Biz \u2013 September 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Municipal debt figures can be sliced and diced in several ways. The debt-to-income ratio is one of many indicators used to gauge the financial health of municipalities, helping to answer the question of whether a municipality has the capacity to repay its debt from its income. Explore municipal debt, as well as other stories, in&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=18838\" 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":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stats-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18841,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions\/18841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}