{"id":196768,"date":"2017-09-06T07:58:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T05:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=196768"},"modified":"2017-09-06T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T07:39:31","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/196768\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-138\/","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.702.co.za\/articles\/271345\/how-did-zuma-get-to-china\">Despite the budget for VIP jet use being used up, president Jacob Zuma still forked over R20 million in state funds to fly on a private jet to China<\/a><\/strong>. This, while the presidential jet Inkwazi is &#8216;good to go&#8217; and simply sitting, unused. The president&#8217;s use of private planes is a constant point of contention in SA politics. Government insists Inkwazi is not fit for use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/companies\/retail-and-consumer\/2017-09-06-new-era-at-shoprite-as-wiese-and-steinhoff-take-full-control\/\">Following shareholder approval to repurchase R1.7 billion worth of Shoprite shares,\u00a0Steinhoff and billionaire Christo Wiese are likely to emerge as the new majority shareholders at the group<\/a><\/strong>. The revelation was made in\u00a0prelisting circular for Steinhoff Africa, showing where the 50% control of Shoprite was now centred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2017-09-06-judges-grill-parties-and-mbete-on-probe-into-zumas-nkandla-conduct\/\">The Constitutional Court expressed frustration at opposition parties that are trying to get president Jacob Zuma impeached through court processes<\/a><\/strong>, questioning whether they had exhausted all available means through Parliament. Speaker Baleka Mbete was also chastised for not opening up more processes through National Assembly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/mantashe-using-state-resources-for-dirty-tricks-will-kill-anc-11095025\">ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has lashed out at politicians using state resources to execute &#8216;dirty tricks&#8217; against opponents<\/a><\/strong>. This follows targeted smear campaigns against deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa this week. Mantashe said that the same tactics were used ahead of the Polokwane conference, and said if it wasn&#8217;t stopped, it would kill the ANC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand firmed against the dollar on Tuesday after data showed the economy emerged from recession in the second quarter. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday the rand was trading at R12.92 to the dollar, R16.84 to the pound and R15.38 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuma spent another R20 million on private VIP jets, despite the budget being milked dry; Shoprite is reportedly in new hands, following an approval for a share repurchase; the Constitutional Court has stern words for political parties; and ANC SG Gwede Mantashe says using state resources for dirty politics will kill the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":60317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,11121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196768","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=196768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196834,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196768\/revisions\/196834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}