{"id":205252,"date":"2017-10-16T07:28:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T05:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=205252"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:12:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:12:23","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/205252\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-164\/","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.iol.co.za\/business-report\/gigaba-says-saa-needs-to-repay-local-banks-11581774\">South African Airways needs to find yet another R5 billion by the end of this month, to repay debts to local banks, Parliament has been told.<\/a><\/strong> This follows the failing airline being granted a bailout of R3 billion last month, and R2.2 billion bailout the month before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/companies\/energy\/2017-10-16-how-eskoms-hearings-are-tailored-to-favour-matshela-koko\/\">Eskom&#8217;s board may be manipulating the disciplinary process of its suspended acting CEO\u00a0Matshela Koko, to give him a favourable outcome.<\/a><\/strong> The board is reportedly allowing Koko to choose the presiding officer of the process, and is taking on a representative that was deemed to inexperienced and junior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2017\/10\/16\/npa-boss-faces-integrity-test-over-zuma-corruption-charges\">NPA head Shaun Abrahams will have his integrity tested this week as he prepares to tell president Jacob Zuma whether or not he will reinstate 783 corruption charges against him<\/a><\/strong>. The Supreme Court last week ruled with the High Court that dropping the charges was irrational.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-10-16-da-files-for-brown-probe\/\">Public enterprises minister Lynne Brown may face a public protector investigation following weekend reports that she was involved in awarding a lucrative oil contract to her partner and business associate<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; despite their company not having any experience in the field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand climbed to its firmest level in two weeks on Friday, driven higher by a court ruling upholding corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R13.30 to the dollar, R17.69 to the pound and R15.71 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAA needs another R5 billion by the end of this month, Gigaba says; Eskom&#8217;s board may be manipulating disciplinary processes to favour former bosses; and NPA head Shaun Abrahams&#8217; integrity will be tested this week as he prepares to make a decision on the Zuma corruption charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":107629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205252","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=205252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205440,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205252\/revisions\/205440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}