{"id":187329,"date":"2017-07-24T07:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T05:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=187329"},"modified":"2017-07-24T07:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T05:59:27","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/187329\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-107\/","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:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/companies\/energy\/2017-07-24-exclusive-eskom-finance-chief-in-the-loop-on-trillian-pay\/\">Eskom&#8217;s CFO Anoj Singh, is being directly linked to payments worth hundreds of millions of rands to Trillian, a Gupta-linked company that the utility previously denied working with<\/a><\/strong>. A whistle blower has come forward with new information showing that Singh was fully aware of Trillian, months before the first multi-million rand payments were made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/moneyweb-opinion\/coming-soon-a-tax-revolt\/\">Economist Magnus Heystek believes that a tax revolt is looming in South Africa, as the government continues to put more pressure on the wealthy as a means to draw in more tax revenue<\/a><\/strong>. The latest move from government is to be rid of tax exemptions for South Africans earning money overseas &#8211; next could be inheritance taxes, Heystek said, with the &#8216;last straw&#8217; fast approaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2017\/07\/24\/guptaleaks-expose-blf-leader-s-role-in-campaign-against-gupta-critic\">The latest Gupta leaks reveal how intimidation group Black First Land First and its leader Andile Mngxitama received instruction from the Gupta family to target the family&#8217;s critics in the media<\/a><\/strong>. Mngxitama has repeatedly denied being tied to the Guptas and working for them, however BLF has so far only targeted those who criticism them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>EFF leader Julius Malema said that his party would consider entering into a coalition with the ANC &#8211;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-07-24-malema-anc-must-arrest-jz\/\"> provided that the party commits itself to rooting out corruption, and promises to charge and arrest president Jacob Zuma<\/a><\/strong>. The EFF emerged as the kingmakers after the last election, and used their votes to wrest control away from the ANC in three major metros.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand firmed against a weaker dollar on Friday, recovering from losses in the previous session after the central bank unexpectedly cut its benchmark lending rate for the first time in five years.<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Monday the rand was trading at R12.89 to the dollar, R16.78 to the pound and R15.04 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom&#8217;s chief financial officer has been directly linked to hundreds of millions of rands in payments to Trillian; a tax revolt could be on the cards, as government seeks out new tax revenue; Gupta leaks reveal Black First Land First&#8217;s ties to the Guptas; and Malema says the ANC must arrest Zuma before he will work with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":77857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,11121],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-187329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187329","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=187329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187339,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187329\/revisions\/187339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}