{"id":202992,"date":"2017-10-05T08:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=202992"},"modified":"2017-10-05T08:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:02:30","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/202992\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-157\/","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>Presidential hopeful Lindiwe Sisulu is making her presence known ahead of the ANC&#8217;s elective conference in December, saying in no uncertain terms that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/10\/04\/how-lindiwe-sisulu-is-pitting-herself-as-the-ideal-anc-president_a_23233178\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">she has the country&#8217;s top position in sight, and won&#8217;t settle for anything less<\/a><\/strong>. Sisulu has pinned her campaign on the back of it being the only hope for the party to survive &#8211; otherwise it will continue to decline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-10-05-gordhan-challenges-browns-innocent-quote\/\">Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan has slammed public enterprises minister Lynne Brown&#8217;s notion that those accused of being complicit in state capture are innocent until proven guilty<\/a><\/strong>. Gordhan questioned how a guilty verdict could be reached while the very structures that should reach that conclusion have been captured, and investigations drag on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-10-05-mining-bosses-say-they-want-mosebenzi-zwane-to-be-replaced\/\">South African mining bosses who boycotted a keynote address by mining minister Mosebenzi Zwane is calling for him to step down and be replaced.<\/a><\/strong> The sector is currently feuding with the minister of his controversial mining charter, which is forcing &#8216;radical economic transformation&#8217; on the industry. Critics have said the charter will force foreign investors out of the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reserve Bank governor\u00a0Lesetja Kganyago says that South Africa&#8217;s failure to act against corruption is destroying business confidence. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/commoditiesNews\/idAFJ8N1M3007\">He said that by not doing anything, the country gives the impression that it simply doesn&#8217;t take graft and criminality\u00a0seriously<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand firmed on Wednesday, regaining ground after tumbling to its weakest in six months as the weaker dollar overshadowed data showing shrinking private sector activity at home. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was trading at R13.60 to the dollar, R18.01 to the pound and R15.99 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordhan challenges the notion that the state capture accused are innocent until proven guilty; presidential contender Lindiwe Sisulu says its the top spot or nothing; SA mining bosses call for Zwane&#8217;s head; and the Reserve Bank says South Africa&#8217;s failure to do anything about corruption sends the signal that we just don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":114050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202992","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\/202992","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=202992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203012,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202992\/revisions\/203012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}