{"id":176365,"date":"2017-05-24T07:42:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=176365"},"modified":"2017-05-24T07:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:42:18","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/176365\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-65\/","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.timeslive.co.za\/sundaytimes\/2017\/05\/23\/ANC-dismisses-Zuma-removal-report-as-fabrication\">The ANC has called a report claiming that the removal of president Jacob Zuma will be discussed at its May NEC meeting a fabrication, with analysts noting that the president still wields enough power within the ANC to squash any challenges.<\/a><\/strong> The ANC veterans are still insisting on a crisis conference to discuss Zuma, however their concerns have fallen on deaf ears.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2017-05-24-no-vendetta-against-gordhan-says-abrahams\/\">National director of public prosecutions (NDPP) Shaun Abrahams insists that he has no vendetta against former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, and that the NPA was definitely not a &#8216;captured&#8217; entity. <\/a><\/strong>Abrahams was giving an update to Parliament on the cases currently being investigated &#8211; including the number of successful corruption charges brought. The NPA has only managed to hit just over half of its target of 1,000 corruptions cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017\/05\/23\/Its-perjury-ANC-asks-government-and-parliament-to-act-over-Molefe\">Following an intense grilling by a Parliamentary committee over the reappointment of Eskom boss Brian Molefe, the ANC released a statement saying that the power utility and minister Lynne Brown&#8217;s explanation of the events amounts to perjury.<\/a><\/strong> None of the MPs on the committee were convinced by the tale that Molefe had been on unpaid leave after his purported early retirement was not approved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/hlaudi-motsoeneng-expected-to-appear-before-disciplinary-hearing-20170524\">Embattled SABC executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng is expected to face a disciplinary committee today &#8211; though his representatives insist it has nothing to do with the Public Protector&#8217;s report on the broadcaster, but rather his recent press conference. <\/a><\/strong>The Public Protector fingered Motsoeneng for maladministration and corruption, while the press conference issue had to do with bringing the SABC into disrepute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand raced to a four-week high against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday on a media report that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) will discuss the removal of President Jacob Zuma at a major party meeting this weekend. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday, the rand was trading at R13.13 to the dollar, R17.05 to the pound and R14.68 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC says talk of Zuma&#8217;s removal being discussed is rubbish; NPA head Shaun Abrahams still has a Gordhan cloud hanging over his head; Eskom and minister Lynne Brown face the heat over the Molefe issue; and it&#8217;s disciplinary committee day for the SABC&#8217;s Hlaudi Motsoeneng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":106747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-176365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176365","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=176365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176367,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176365\/revisions\/176367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}