{"id":20000,"date":"2026-10-02T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=20000"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:00:18","slug":"stats-biz-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=20000","title":{"rendered":"Stats Biz \u2013 September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Expenditure patterns across South Africa\u2019s provinces are similar but not identical. The provincial government\u2019s biggest task is managing the country\u2019s public education and healthcare systems. Together, these two functions accounted for 75,8% of total provincial government expenditure in 2024\/2025. Explore the spending priorities of provincial governments, as well as other stories, in this edition of Stats Biz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/StatsBiz_September2026.pdf\">Download Stats Biz \u2013 September 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expenditure patterns across South Africa\u2019s provinces are similar but not identical. The provincial government\u2019s biggest task is managing the country\u2019s public education and healthcare systems. Together, these two functions accounted for 75,8% of total provincial government expenditure in 2024\/2025. Explore the spending priorities of provincial governments, as well as other stories, in this edition of&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=20000\" 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-20000","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\/20000","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=20000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20002,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20000\/revisions\/20002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}