{"id":182765,"date":"2017-06-30T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T04:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=182765"},"modified":"2017-06-30T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T04:54:54","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/182765\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-91\/","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=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2017-06-29-trillian-capital-partners-to-respond-to-damning-state-capture-report\">Gupta-linked finance firm Trillian Capital says it will provide a &#8216;comprehensive response&#8217; to the report initiated by its former chair, Tokyo Sexwale, into claims of state capture.<\/a><\/strong> The report found that Trillian filtered millions of rands to the Gupta family &#8211; but could not complete the investigation because the company stonewalled access to data. The group says the report was wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/special-features\/anc-policy-conference\/ancgala-anc-will-emerge-from-conference-stronger-says-zuma-10060965\">The ANC will head into its national policy conference today divided, but president Jacob Zuma hopes that the party will emerge united.<\/a><\/strong> The conference kicks off today, but many analysts are expecting a battle of factions, with policy issues like land reform and economic transformation being used as tools to batter opponents. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/06\/30\/mantashe-anc-is-in-trouble-but-zuma-stays_a_23009244\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">Party secretary general Gwede Mantashe said the ANC will use the conference to self-correct but Zuma will stay president<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/health-minister-uses-nhi-briefing-to-reprimand-the-media-20170629\">Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has slammed South African media for painting the public healthcare system in a bad light, exacerbating the doubts surrounding\u00a0the National Healthcare Insurance plan. <\/a><\/strong>Motsoaledi said that people don&#8217;t trust the NHI because they do not trust public healthcare, and it&#8217;s the media&#8217;s fault. The media does not try to inform the public, he said, it just wants to attack his department.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/watch-sa-editors-forum-responds-to-harassment-of-journalists\">The South African Editor&#8217;s Forum has condemned the intimidation and assault of Business Day and Rand Daily Mail senior editors by Black First Land First members.<\/a><\/strong> The BFLF targeted the journalists after columns were published about the Gupta family. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2017-06-29-business-day-editor-assaulted-by-black-first-land-first\/\">The group vandalised one editor&#8217;s home, and physically assaulted another. <\/a><\/strong>Black First Land First has been linked to the Guptas, and have been accused of being a proxy body set up by the family and PR firm Bell Pottinger to draw attention away from their dodgy dealings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand weakened on Thursday as better than expected growth in the U.S. wobbled emerging market currencies and as jitters set in ahead of the ruling party&#8217;s six-day policy conference starting Friday. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was trading at R12.99 to the dollar, R16.92 to the pound and R14.87 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trillian hits back at the latest Gupta state capture report, saying it got things wrong; Zuma hopes the ANC policy conference will unite the party; health minister Aaron Motsoaledi says it&#8217;s the media&#8217;s fault no one trusts public healthcare; and Black First Land First vandalises and assaults journalists over Gupta reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":143991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-182765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182765","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=182765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182767,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182765\/revisions\/182767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}