{"id":172175,"date":"2017-04-25T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=172175"},"modified":"2017-04-25T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:51:13","slug":"5-important-thing-happening-in-south-africa-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/172175\/5-important-thing-happening-in-south-africa-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5 important thing 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.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/negative-narrative-towards-anc-probed-8806308\">The department of education is launching an investigation into claims made by presidential hopeful, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma that school children were being taught to hate the ANC in the school curriculum<\/a><\/strong>. Dlamini-Zuma is pinning her election campaign on the same spin that president Zuma pushes &#8211; that the view that the ANC is corrupt and ineffective is driven by external forces painting such a narrative to undermine governance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2017\/04\/25\/Junk-not-a-disaster-for-SA-says-Manyi1\">Former government spokesman and opponent of &#8220;white monopoly capital&#8221;,\u00a0Mzwanele Manyi says that while junk status is not good for South Africa, everyone overreacted<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Manyi is president of the Progressive Professionals&#8217; Forum and promotes &#8220;radical economic transformation&#8221;, and us firmly in the Gupta camp, often defending them against being painted as villains in SA business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Victims of SIM-swap fraud \u00a0are gearing up to take some SA banks and mobile operators to court. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Companies\/Financial-Services\/sim-swap-victims-mull-legal-action-against-banks-20170424\">Around 20 clients of Absa, Standard Bank, FNB and Capitec,\u00a0and mobile operators\u00a0Vodacom and MTN will be approaching the courts to demand information and action from the groups.<\/a><\/strong> The highest amount lost to SIM swap fraud by those in the action is R1.8 million, while the lowest is R43,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL8N1HW4QZ\">The ANC said it will introduce an amended land rights bill in parliament in May after the Constitutional Court\u00a0declared a law that re-opened a process for blacks to make claims on land taken from them during white-minority rule, invalid<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The draft bill, which will be open for public comment until May 19, seeks to extend the date for lodging a land claim to 30 June 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand hit a three-week high against the dollar on Monday as emerging markets were buoyed by France&#8217;s presidential election first-round win for the market&#8217;s preferred candidate. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was trading at R13.03 to the dollar, R16.68 to the pound and R14.16 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dlamini-Zuma&#8217;s claims that schools are teaching children to hate the ANC will be probed; radical economic transformation fans say South Africa overreacted to junk status; SIM-swap fraud victims who lost millions are gearing up to take on the banks; and the ruling party will intro an amended land bill in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":154711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-172175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172175","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=172175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172177,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172175\/revisions\/172177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}