{"id":138901,"date":"2016-10-04T07:53:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T05:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=138901"},"modified":"2016-10-04T07:53:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T05:53:45","slug":"5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/138901\/5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-54\/","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.bdlive.co.za\/national\/politics\/2016\/10\/04\/anc-nod-to-lifestyle-audits-to-fight-graft\">The ANC is slowly changing its tune on proposed lifestyle audits for government officials, with the ruling party now supporting the call &#8211; after years of rejecting the plan<\/a><\/strong>. The call for lifestyle audits first came in 2011, but the ANC did not want it. However, following a big loss in the 2016 elections, and fears support will dwindle in 2019, the party has changed its tune.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2016\/10\/04\/Student-imbizo-ends-in-impasse1\">Protesting students have said no to proposals to end their action against universities, as a recent imbizo set up to find a resolution to the free education matter hit an impasse<\/a><\/strong>. Meanwhile students at Wits and UCT are trying to head back to class, with bolstered security, and potential criminal proceedings awaiting those who try to stop them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/africa\/african-governance-mauritius-on-top-sa-dips-2075723\">The latest\u00a0Ibrahim Index of African Governance shows that South Africa&#8217;s place on the continent is worsening, with the country slipping to sixth place<\/a><\/strong>, below Mauritius,\u00a0Botswana, Cape Verde, the Seychelles and Namibia. The index is a comprehensive analysis of 54 African nations on the basis of security, human rights,\u00a0health, education, and many others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2016\/10\/04\/ANC-mandate-is-clear-Get-rid-of-SABC-board\">The ANC wants the SABC board to be fired, and an announced inquiry into the broadcaster&#8217;s management and operations is just a formality, insiders say<\/a><\/strong>. The ANC is angry at the SABC board for ignoring a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling insisting controversial executive, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, should be removed from his position of power. Instead, the company reappointed him to executive level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand and bonds firmed on Monday\u00a0after the finance minister said the economy may be over the\u00a0worst of its downturn and took a further boost from upbeat\u00a0Chinese manufacturing data. Stocks were weaker. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencycharts\/?from=USD&amp;to=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was trading at R13.63 to the dollar, R17.51 to the pound and R15.25 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In other news:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/new-leader-for-anc-in-nelson-mandela-bay\">Following a big loss in Nelson Mandela Bay, former ANC mayor Danny Jordaan has stepped down as leader for the party in the province,<\/a><\/strong> but will remain to help the ANC campaign for support. The new ANC leader in NMB is\u00a0Bicks Ndoni, the former deputy mayor in the metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC has changed its mind about lifestyle audits for government officials; no end in sight for student protests as talks fail; South Africa is being showed up on the African continent in a new index; and the ruling party want the entire SABC board sacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":131872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-138901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138901","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=138901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138903,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138901\/revisions\/138903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}