{"id":108747,"date":"2016-01-12T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=108747"},"modified":"2016-01-12T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:18:35","slug":"the-5-most-important-things-happening-in-sa-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/108747\/the-5-most-important-things-happening-in-sa-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 most important things happening in SA right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to catch up on the biggest news stories of the day? Here&#8217;s the BusinessTech wrap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/108639\/rand-takes-another-beating-and-its-going-to-get-worse\/\">The South African Rand was pummeled<\/a><\/strong> once again, hitting new lows against the dollar &#8211; and economists and analysts say that things are going to get worse. Meanwhile, President Jacob <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/108549\/economists-cant-convince-me-i-was-wrong-zuma\/\">Zuma remains unconvinced that he had anything to do with it<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/108665\/spooked-tenderpreneurs-rushing-through-tenders-ahead-of-elections-eff\/\">The EFF has called out ANC-run municipalities for steamrolling tender award processes as they panic ahead of the 2016 municipal elections<\/a><\/strong>. The party has vowed to undo &#8220;illegal tendering&#8221; wherever it comes into power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Following student protests late in 2015 and early 2016, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/108667\/r6-9-billion-additional-funding-for-sa-students\/\">the department of higher education has announced that it will set aside an additional R6.9 billion to aid student funding this year<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/108695\/taxis-not-to-blame-for-sa-road-accidents\/\">The death toll from road traffic accidents over the holiday period climbed by 14%<\/a><\/strong> compared to the previous year. Transport Minister Dipuo Peters broke down the statistics, with some suprising findings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/108743\/supreme-court-discriminated-against-oscar-pistorius-lawyers\/\">Oscar Pistorius&#8217; legal team has revealed the grounds on which he will appeal his murder charge at the Constitutional Court<\/a><\/strong>, claiming that the Supreme Court of Appeal discriminated againt him based on his disabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You also might have missed &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/108729\/new-r5-coin-launches-in-sa\/\">the South African Reserve Bank has launched a new commemorative R5 coin into circulation<\/a><\/strong>, and encourages citizens to spread it around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to catch up on the biggest news stories of the day? Here&#8217;s the BusinessTech wrap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10979,26,10981],"class_list":["post-108747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-businesstech-wrap","tag-headline","tag-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108749,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108747\/revisions\/108749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}