{"id":204854,"date":"2017-10-13T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T05:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=204854"},"modified":"2017-10-13T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T05:44:45","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/204854\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-163\/","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\/national\/2017-10-12-friday-is-d-day-for-jacob-zumas-bid-to-appeal-against-reinstating-fraud-charges\/\">President Jacob Zuma will hear today whether his appeal against the reinstatement of 783 corruption charges has succeeded.<\/a><\/strong> The Supreme Court of Appeals has scheduled its ruling for 9.30 on Friday. The ruling has been eight years in the making.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2017\/10\/13\/exclusive-mkhwebane-pleads-to-have-bankorp-review-postponed\">Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has asked that the Absa\/CIEX review be postponed to 2018, after her legal team dumped her.<\/a><\/strong> Mkhwebane&#8217;s office says that there is too much documentation to read through to meet the deadline set by the court. Absa and the Reserve Bank are challenging her findings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan says that South Africa has a tough road ahead of it &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/10\/12\/lack-of-opportunities-for-black-people-still-a-big-problem-gordhan_a_23241536\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">but if it wants to turn things around it has to get rid of the rot of corruption in government and the private sector. <\/a><\/strong>Earlier this week, Gordhan backed Ramaphosa as the man to do the job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>SAA has been left in the lurch following government apparently dropping plans to sell state assets to bail it out,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/economy\/gigaba-should-say-how-saa-will-get-funding-at-mtbps-11561938\"> however for clarity on the plans for the failing airline will be revealed at Malusi Gigaba&#8217;s mid-term budget speech next week.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand raced to a two-week high on Thursday as investor appetite for riskier but high-yielding emerging markets assets improved and data eased concerns about the domestic economy.<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Friday the rand was trading at R13.45 to the dollar, R17.84 to the pound and R15.93 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s D-day for Zuma and the spy tapes saga; public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane wants the Absa\/Reserve Bank challenge postponed to 2018; Gordhan says if South Africa wants to move forward it needs to root out corruption; and SAA&#8217;s future is in the balance as we await Gigaba&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":167757,"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-204854","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\/204854","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=204854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204864,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204854\/revisions\/204864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}