{"id":201680,"date":"2017-09-29T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=201680"},"modified":"2017-09-29T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T06:00:20","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/201680\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-153\/","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.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2017-09-29-mckinsey-feels-heat-on-trillian-deal\/\">Former Trillian CEO Bianca\u00a0Goodson has blown the whistle on many dodgy dealings between global consultancy McKinsey, Trillian, Eskom and other SOEs<\/a><\/strong>. The former executive made submissions in a statement pointing to Trillian and McKinsey working together to score contracts with state companies worth billions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/companies\/energy\/2017-09-29-eskom-asks-for-business-leadership-sa-meeting-after-suspension\/\">Eskom wants to meet with Business Leadership South Africa<\/a><\/strong> to figure out a way to resolve the group&#8217;s issues with the power utility, after it and Transnet had their memberships suspended yesterday. Transnet, meanwhile, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/274336\/transnet-denies-suspension-from-blsa-says-it-elected-not-to-renew-membership\">denied it was given the boot by the forum<\/a><\/strong>, saying it simply elected not to renew it membership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-28\/politics-hampers-south-african-central-bank-kganyago-says\">The political tensions in South Africa are making the Reserve Bank&#8217;s already tough job a whole lot more complex, says governor\u00a0Lesetja Kganyago<\/a><\/strong>. He said the political divisions have made the bank a target, and leaders are using populism and rhetoric to talk around the bank, instead of looking at the hard facts of the economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2017-09-29-00-kzn-anc-gives-mantashe-the-finger\">ANC in KwaZulu Natal is laying the party&#8217;s divisions bare by openly defying an order from secretary general Gwede Mantashe<\/a><\/strong> and appealing a court ruling on its own. The KZN branch of the party will be seeking to have a High Court judgement saying its structures were elected illegally, dismissed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand recovered from five-month lows against the dollar in late trade on Thursday as the greenback paused its recent rally triggered by hawkish rhetoric by the U.S. Federal Reserve.<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Friday the rand was trading at R13.55 to the dollar, R18.18 to the pound and R15.96 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trillian, McKinsey and Eskom named and shamed in whistleblower&#8217;s statement on corruption; Eskom is sore about being kicked out of BLSA &#8211; but Transnet doesn&#8217;t care; political tensions are making the Reserve Bank&#8217;s job a lot tougher; and the ANC in KZN openly defies national leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":89422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201680","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=201680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201700,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201680\/revisions\/201700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}