{"id":196500,"date":"2017-09-05T07:44:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=196500"},"modified":"2017-09-05T07:44:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:44:57","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/196500\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-137\/","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\/09\/04\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-concourt-case-against-zuma-starting-today_a_23196293\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">The EFF will head to the Constitutional Court today in a bid to impeach president Jacob Zuma.<\/a><\/strong> While the party is not seeking the ConCourt to get directly involved, it is looking for a ruling on Speaker Baleka Mbete, saying she failed in her duty to hold the president to account over the Nkandla scandal. Impeachment requires a two-thirds majority in Parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/news\/companies-and-deals\/saa-is-being-forced-to-cut-its-fleet\/\">South African Airways is reportedly being forced to cut down the size of its fleet to try and save costs.<\/a><\/strong> The failing airline is looking to reduce its fleet by as much as 15%, while also making other cost-saving moves like reducing the number of flights by 700 each month. SAA faces a R6.8 billion debt repayment at the end of this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/new-rules-to-reduce-data-costs-due-soon-11082144\">Telecoms minister, Siyabonga Cwele, says that new regulations that will bring down the prices of mobile data in South Africa will be released next month.<\/a><\/strong> The regulations will tackle the issue of expiring mobile data, and also force mobile operators to be more specific and timely with notifications of depleted data on their networks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biznews.com\/global-investing\/2017\/09\/05\/bell-pottinger-expelled-prca\/\">The British public relations authority has kicked controversial PR firm Bell Pottinger out of its group, following findings that the firm run an unethical campaign<\/a><\/strong> based on racial division in South Africa for the Gupta family through their Oakbay companies. \u00a0Bell Pottinger&#8217;s membership was terminated with immediate effect, and cannot reapply for five years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand weakened slightly against the dollar on Monday ahead of second-quarter GDP numbers and as safe-haven assets gained after a nuclear test by North Korea; but stocks were weaker. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was trading at R12.95 to the dollar, R16.74 to the pound and R15.42 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EFF is off to the Consitutional Court in a last-ditch attempt to remove Zuma from power; SAA is cutting its fleet to save money; new data cost-cutting regulations will be ready by the end of next month; and Britain&#8217;s PR authority has given Bell Pottinger the boot over the Gupta campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196500","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=196500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196522,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196500\/revisions\/196522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}