{"id":140881,"date":"2016-10-21T08:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T06:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=140881"},"modified":"2016-10-21T08:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T06:04:48","slug":"5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/140881\/5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-67\/","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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/sa-to-withdraw-from-icc-2082146\"><strong>South Africa is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court according to document published on Thursday.<\/strong><\/a> Once acknowledged by the UN, the exit process will take 1 year. South Africa said it would leave the ICC last year, after it was criticised for\u00a0ignoring a court order to arrest Sudanese President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir\u00a0&#8211; pictured,\u00a0accused of genocide and war crimes\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0when he visited the country last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/crime-courts\/feesmustfall-protest-to-hurt-a-million-matrics-2082174\">The FeesMustFall protests are expected to impact over 1 million matriculants who are at risk of losing placement at tertiary institutes across the country<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Following weeks of violent clashes between students and security, some campuses have shut down completely, making it impossible for students to complete their academic year. At UCT, some faculties will complete their work in a &#8216;mini-semester&#8217; in January 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2016\/10\/21\/Ministers-step-up-for-Gordhan\">Several cabinet ministers, including\u00a0Aaron Motsoaledi, Derek Hanekom, Thulas Nxesi and\u00a0Joe Phaahla have given their full support to finance minister Pravin Gordhan, following a Cabinet meeting\u00a0last week<\/a><\/strong>. According to\u00a0Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe, the decision for Cabinet to support Gordhan was unanimous with &#8216;a few exceptions&#8217;. The NPA charges against Gordhan have split the ANC. with pro-Zuma factions being less supportive of the minister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/western-cape\/madonsela-to-take-up-post-at-stellenbosch-university-2082065\">Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has taken up the position of\u00a0chairwoman of social justice in Stellenosch University&#8217;s\u00a0law faculty, the institute announced, where she will engage in teaching and research.<\/a><\/strong> Meanwhile, her successor, Public Protector\u00a0Busisiwe Mkhwebane says that, while she will focus on the poor during her tenure, the state capture report will still take priority once the court has ruled on its release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand weakened, reflecting a firmer dollar after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the bank had not discussed ending or extending its asset-buying programme when it met on Thursday. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencycharts\/?from=USD&amp;to=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was trading at R13.91 to the dollar, R17.04 to the pound and R15.18 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has reportedly started the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court; student protests will block as many as 1 million matric pupils from going to university in 2017; and finance minister Pravin Gordhan gets more support in his battle with the NPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":140883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-140881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140881","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=140881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140885,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140881\/revisions\/140885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}