{"id":139569,"date":"2016-10-11T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=139569"},"modified":"2016-10-11T07:52:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:52:26","slug":"5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/139569\/5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-59\/","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\/2016\/10\/11\/zuma-fails-to-honour-his-meeting-with-madonsela\">President Jacob Zuma is once again doing everything in his power to delay and frustrate exiting Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela&#8217;s investigation into his business relationships and allegations of state capture.<\/a><\/strong> Zuma is now requesting that Madonsela hand over her dossier, so that he can access her witnesses &#8211; and he is refusing to answer the questions put to him. Legal experts predict that Zuma may interdict the investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2016\/10\/11\/At-Wits-end\">Students say they will continue to protest after a day of causing havoc in Johannesburg&#8217;s city centre, where shops were stones and a bus was set alight<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Wits SRC secretary-general Fasiha Hassan said that it wasn&#8217;t students that were behind the acts &#8211; and if it was, it was because Wits university security and the SAPS chased them from campus. Wits said it will remain open, while other universities remain closed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Companies\/Industrial\/sas-energy-map-to-serve-this-week-before-parliament-minister-20161010\">Cabinet will finally get to see the country&#8217;s integrated energy plans &#8211; the blueprint of South Africa&#8217;s energy needs &#8211; this week, energy minister Tina Jomat-Pettersson has said<\/a><\/strong>. The unreleased plans are part of the reason the procurement process for the country&#8217;s nuclear power plants has not started, as other departments say the documents are out of date and out of touch with the country&#8217;s energy needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdlive.co.za\/business\/industrials\/2016\/10\/11\/ceos-pay-tops-r14m-as-profit-falls-again\">Executive pay is once again being thrust into the spotlight as\u00a0Murray &amp; Roberts CEO Henry Laas got paid R14.7 million for the latest financial year &#8211; despite the company&#8217;s profits declining for a third year in a row<\/a><\/strong>. High executive pay is causing a stink following the news that Shoprite CEO, Whitey Basson, took home a massive R100 million paycheque for 2015\/16.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencycharts\/?from=USD&amp;to=ZAR\">South Africa&#8217;s rand firmed against the dollar on Monday as investors, seeing less chance of a victory by Republican nominee Donald Trump in next month&#8217;s U.S. presidential election<\/a><\/strong>, ventured into riskier emerging markets. On Tuesday, the rand was trading at R13.89 to the dollar R17.11 to the pound and R15.47 to the euro.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In other news<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2016\/10\/11\/Why-so-quiet-Faith-Muthambi\">SABC executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng&#8217;s chief enabler, communication minister Faith Muthambi has remained noticeably silent amid calls from the ANC and other parties to sack the\u00a0broadcaster&#8217;s board<\/a><\/strong>. Up to the recent turn from the ANC, Muthambi has been Motsoeneng&#8217;s biggest supporter in government; however the minister has gone to ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuma is doing everything he can to delay and frustrate Thuli Madonsela&#8217;s investigation into state capture before she steps down as Public Protector; and after a day of destruction on Joburg&#8217;s city streets, student protesters vow to continue their fight for free education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-139569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139569","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=139569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139571,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139569\/revisions\/139571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}