{"id":149411,"date":"2017-01-09T07:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T05:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=149411"},"modified":"2017-01-09T07:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T05:54:43","slug":"5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/149411\/5-things-you-need-to-know-in-south-africa-today-111\/","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=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/malema-says-anc-is-imploding\">With hundreds of busses ferrying in supporters from KwaZulu Natal and Mpumalanga to Orlando Stadium in Soweto<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biznews.com\/undictated\/2017\/01\/09\/money-politics-anc-r21m-jamboree\/\">at a speculated cost of R21 million<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; opposition parties have stated that the ANC has well and truly lost Gauteng. Commenting on the ANC&#8217;s 105 year birthday celebrations held this weekend, EFF leader Julius Malema said that the ANC is crumbling, while the DA said that the party is showing tell-tale signs of a dying organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/the-real-matric-marks-20170107\">Deeper analysis of the 2016 matric results shows the ugly truth behind the &#8216;celebrations&#8217; of the class of 2016&#8217;s pass rate.<\/a><\/strong> While the pass rate was relatively high at 72.5%, the average marks in the subjects written shows that quality remains low. The average mark for geography was only 39%, with history at 44% and English (first language) at 55%. The lowest marks, however, were maths (31%) and science (35%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/01\/08\/mantashe-pronouncement-of-candidates-a-sign-of-ill-discipline\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has called the ANC Women&#8217;s League &#8216;ill-disciplined&#8217; following the latter&#8217;s endorsement of AU chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the next president of the ANC.<\/a><\/strong> The league was criticised for engaging in slate politics so openly, after the ANC NEC had decided to keep campaigning and lobbying quiet until policy direction had been determined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2017\/01\/09\/More-Kugas-aflame\">Two more Ford Kugas burst into flames this past weekend, while the company ums and ahs over what could possible be causing the problems<\/a><\/strong>. Over 40 Kugas have experienced the combustion problem since 2011, however Ford has stated that there was not evidence of an issue to initiate a recall. The company has since urged owners of the 1.6l Kuga to get their cars checked at their local dealer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s stocks snapped two days of losses and ended the first trading week of 2017 higher, led by market heavyweight Naspers, while gains by the dollar after a U.S. jobs report weakened the rand.<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Monday the rand was trading at R13.78 to the dollar, R16.83 to the pound and R14.50 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC has truly lost Gauteng, having bussed in supporters from other provinces for its 105 year birthday, opposition parties say; the average subject marks for the 2016 matric exams show exactly how low passing standards are in the country; and two more Ford Kugas have burst into flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96265,"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-149411","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\/149411","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=149411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149415,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149411\/revisions\/149415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}