{"id":130836,"date":"2016-07-21T08:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T06:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=130836"},"modified":"2016-07-21T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T06:55:40","slug":"5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/130836\/5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-12\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things you need to know in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what is happening in and affecting South Africa today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/zuma-disses-maimane-and-malema-2047724\">President Jacob Zuma has upped his electioneering by slamming his two biggest competitors in the DA and EFF<\/a><\/strong>. Zuma said that the DA&#8217;s Mmusi Maimaine was teaming up with &#8220;the (white) oppressors of his own people&#8221;, and that the EFF&#8217;s Julius Malema was disrespectful and impudent &#8211; which is why he was kicked out of the ANC in the first place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharenet.co.za\/v3\/sens_display.php?tdate=20160721080000&amp;seq=4\">Vodacom has posted rosy quarterly results,\u00a0showing South African\u00a0revenue growth of 5.6% to R12.43 billion<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0and local\u00a0active customer growth up 5.4% to 35.1 million people. Group data revenue increased 19.4% to R5.79 billion, representing 34.4% of service revenue for the quarter ended 30 June\u00a02016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand firmed against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday after data showing inflation quickened in June boosted the case for domestic interest rates remaining high this year. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencycharts\/?from=USD&amp;to=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was trading at R14.29 to the dollar, R18.93 to the pound and R15.76 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In global news:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL8N1A7186?sp=true\">Asian stocks climbed to nine-month highs on Thursday, helped by a pickup in capital inflows and a recovery in global oil prices<\/a><\/strong>, while the dollar stood strong on growing bets of a U.S. rate increase as early as September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL8N1A70D4\">Crude oil prices edged up in early Asian trading on Thursday<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0after the U.S. Energy Department reported a ninth\u00a0consecutive weekly drawdown of crude stocks but a surprise\u00a0build in gasoline supplies.\u00a0<span id=\"midArticle_2\"><\/span>U.S. crude was up 18 cents at $45.93 a barrel and Brent crude was up 22 cents at $47.39 a barrel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In other news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/crime-courts\/back-to-court-for-sabc-2047727\">Following the SABC agreeing to backtrack on its censorship policy, it will today head to the Labour Court<\/a><\/strong>, where eight axed journalists will fight to be immediately reinstated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what is happening in and affecting South Africa today (21 July 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,11121],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-130836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130836","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=130836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130838,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130836\/revisions\/130838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}