{"id":163449,"date":"2017-03-10T07:51:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=163449"},"modified":"2017-03-10T07:51:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:51:43","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/163449\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-23\/","title":{"rendered":"5 important things happening 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.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/03\/08\/the-anc-wants-to-go-back-to-a-leaner-national-leadership-body-a\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">The ANC has proposed that it shrink its national executive, and limit the number of NEC members who can be in cabinet.<\/a><\/strong> These are just two of the proposals in a\u00a0party discussion document, suggesting the NEC be &#8216;streamlined&#8221; from the 86 members it currently has, while only allowing 65% of cabinet positions to be filled by them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/i-was-ambushed-in-parliament-says-muthambi-8126577\">Communications minister Faith Muthambi is not happy with the findings of the parliamentary ad hoc committee&#8217;s findings on the SABC, calling the committee unlawful and irrational, and she&#8217;s taking its report on review<\/a><\/strong>. The report was adopted by the National Assembly this week, and contains a recommendation that Muthambi be fired for her role in the mess at the SABC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2017\/03\/10\/OR-Tambo-heist-Cop-boss-cries-fake-news\">Questions hang around the multi-million rand heist that took place at OR Tambo International Airport &#8211; chief among them: what happened to the police escort that was supposed to be present? <\/a><\/strong>Acting national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane has not rules out the possibility of an inside job, but appealed to the media to give the police room to investigate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/03\/09\/mbeki-has-again-reminded-us-all-why-south-africa-had-to-let-him\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">Former president Thabo Mbeki has upset a few African leaders by insisting that South Africans are not xenophobic, downplaying ongoing tensions between locals and foreign nationals in the country<\/a><\/strong>. Speaking at a gathering for the\u00a0African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Mbeki said that recent and previous attacks were aimed at &#8220;criminals&#8221;, so they can&#8217;t be classified as xenophobic. Some African leaders disagreed, however.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand slumped to its weakest in three weeks on Thursday as employment data from the United States showed a sharp drop in job losses, bolstering bets of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve next week. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was trading at R13.29 to the dollar, R16.16 to the pound and R14.09 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication minister Faith Muthambi is livid over the SABC ad hoc committee report; the ANC wants to &#8216;streamline&#8217; its leadership; the police are asking for some space to investigate the OR Tambo heist; and former president Thabo Mbeki told African leaders that South Africans are totally not xenophobic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":106381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-163449","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\/163449","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=163449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163475,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163449\/revisions\/163475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}