{"id":143108,"date":"2016-11-14T07:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T05:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=143108"},"modified":"2016-11-14T08:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T06:28:45","slug":"5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/143108\/5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-83\/","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\/jzs-allies-push-for-nkosazana-2089545\">President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s allies are breaking from a Luthuli House order to keep lips locked about their favoured presidential candidate for 2017 by openly campaigning for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to take over as leader of the ANC<\/a><\/strong>. It has been an open secret for some time that Dlamini-Zuma was the favoured candidate for the pro-Zuma faction. Zuma supporters have been pushing for the AU chair under the guise of promoting a female candidate for the party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2016\/11\/14\/ewn-exclusive-des-van-rooyen-welcomes-state-of-capture-report-findings\">Des &#8220;four-day&#8221; van Rooyen has reportedly welcomed the findings of the former Public Protector&#8217;s report into state capture, saying that despite trying to interdict its release, he is happy the report is now out<\/a><\/strong>. Van Rooyen said he would be exercising his rights and will challenge the allegations levelled against him &#8211; insisting that no one is guilty until proven so by the judicial commission of enquiry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2016\/11\/14\/da-to-lay-criminal-charges-against-eskom-boss\">Following his resignation last week, Eskom CEO Brian Molefe now faces more legal pain as the DA says it will lay criminal charges against the man<\/a><\/strong>. The DA said Molefe&#8217;s resignation was suspicious, as the party had just requested a meeting with the CEO where he would have to speak under oath. The EFF, meanwhile, have called for the entire Eskom board to follow Molefe&#8217;s lead and resign. Molefe will step down 1 January 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2016\/11\/14\/Brace-for-more-severe-thunderstorms-this-week-SA-Weather-Service-tells-Gauteng\">The South African Weather Service has warned that Gauteng is likely to see more severe thunderstorms this week, after a brief reprieve over the weekend<\/a><\/strong>. Last week, Johannesburg and surrounding areas were ravaged by flash flooding and hailstorms, which claimed the lives of at least 6 people, and severely damaged infrastructure in some parts of the city. Storms are more likely to hit in the late afternoons, the service said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South African markets continued taking pain following a surprise Trump victory in the US presidential election last week, breaking through R14 to the dollar on the back of the dollar&#8217;s performace. The rand ended the week\u00a0weaker still, tracking downwards following news that Eskom CEO Brian Molefe would be resigning at the end of the year. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencycharts\/?from=USD&amp;to=ZAR&amp;view=1W\">On Monday the rand was trading at R14.35 to the dollar, R18.02 to the pound and R15.47 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Zuma&#8217;s supporters are now openly campaigning for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to be the next president of the ANC; Des van Rooyen breaks his silence about the state capture report; Molefe is facing the wrath of the DA; and expect more severe stormy weather this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":110955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-143108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143108","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=143108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143112,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143108\/revisions\/143112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}