{"id":145085,"date":"2016-11-30T08:02:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=145085"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:02:30","slug":"5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/145085\/5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-95\/","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-tightens-his-grip-2094593\">As the ANC NEC throws president Jacob Zuma a lifeline, the future for those who oppose him is cloudy, as analysts predict a turbulent time ahead<\/a><\/strong>. On Tuesday, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said in no uncertain terms that Zuma had the backing of the ANC, and talk of recalling the president were shot down. Now analysts are expecting some form of retaliation from Zuma, either in the form of a Cabinet reshuffle or using every reach of power he has to protect himself from further attempts to get him out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2016\/11\/30\/Busi-earns-MPs-ire-over-SABC-inquiry\">Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is not doing anything to help\u00a0her current image of being biased in favour of government, after she clashed with MPs across the political spectrum by challenging the inquiry into the SABC<\/a><\/strong>, and again taking a pot-shot at her predecessor, Thuli Madonsela. Mkhwebane is challenging the committee&#8217;s desire to call Madonsela as a witness in the matter, saying there is no precedent for it. Further, she only wants PP officials to answer to the committee in closed meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/anc-hits-back-in-abrahams-parliament-debate\">The ANC has shielded NPA head Shaun Abrahams from opposition parties in Parliament &#8211; after the DA and EFF called for him to step down, and for president Jacob Zuma&#8217;s powers to appoint NDPPs to be limited in the future.<\/a><\/strong> Opposition parties painted Abrahams as being unfit and incompetent to hold the office after a failed fraud case against finance minister Pravin Gordhan. The ANC, however, hit back, expressing confidence in the Abrahams, accusing the opposition of politicking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2016\/11\/30\/sanral-owed-over-r11bn-in-outstanding-e-toll-fees\">Sanral has a massive e-toll problem &#8211; collecting fees. The group is owed over R11 billion in outstanding e-toll fees, despite a slight increase in the number of people who are paying e-tolls every few months. <\/a><\/strong>When asked if the amount was recoverable, Sanral was optimistic &#8211; but the reality is more grim. Sanral said it could not write the amount off until every collection method had been exhausted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand plunged as much as 2.5 percent on Tuesday as the dollar recovered globally and President Jacob Zuma survived calls from inside his party to step down over scandals that have plagued his presidency.\u00a0Despite the backtracking on the Zuma news, the rand remains below R14 to the dollar. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?From=ZAR&amp;To=USD\">On Wednesday, the rand was trading at R13.93 to the dollar R17.38 to the pound and R14.82 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Zuma is safe and secure, analysts predict retaliation &#8211; a Cabinet reshuffle is on the cards; Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is not endearing herself to MPs; NPA head Shaun Abrahams is being shielded by the ANC; and South Africans owe Sanral billions in unpaid e-toll fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-145085","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\/145085","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=145085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145087,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145085\/revisions\/145087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}