{"id":211473,"date":"2017-11-20T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=211473"},"modified":"2017-11-20T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T06:00:54","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/211473\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-189\/","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.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/11\/19\/zweli-mkhize-anc-will-not-survive-2019-if-it-doesnt-change_a_23281985\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">Presidential contender, Zweli Mkhize says that the ANC is at risk of disappearing as it continues to tear itself apart from the inside through factional battles.<\/a><\/strong> He said that the ANC needs to unite, and take action against those who are manipulating the party&#8217;s branches in the lead up to the elective conference in December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has warned the party&#8217;s branches that if they miss the deadline for nomination for the next party president &#8211; this Sunday &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-11-20-wrap-it-up-or-no-vote-for-president-mantashe-tells-anc-branches\/\">they will forfeit their spot to vote at the December conference. The ANC is expected 5,240 delegates at the conference, deciding on the future of the party.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2017-11-20-zimbabwe-a-fistful-of-hours-mugabe-survives-for-now\/#.WhJsPncjFTY\">In a shocking twist, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has defied calls to stand down, and instead announced that he would be staying in power<\/a><\/strong> and presiding over his party&#8217;s coming conference. In a late night address on Sunday, where many expected the statesman to resign, Mugabe rather focused on unity within the party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/in-depth\/investigations\/class-action-planned-against-holiday-clubs\/\">The timeshare industry may be facing a class-action lawsuit from clients who claim that the system around their contracts is rigged.<\/a><\/strong> A consumer protection lawyer says that she has found at least 48 timeshare contracts to be illegal, while complaints pile up that clients can&#8217;t book time at accommodations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand raced to a two-week high against the dollar on Friday as the greenback came under pressure after a report that investigators probing possible Russian interference in the U.S. election had subpoenaed President Donald Trump\u2019s election campaign for documents. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R14.03 to the dollar, R18.53 to the pound and R16.46 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mkhize says that the ANC is at risk of disappearing if it continues tearing itself apart; Mantashe warns that ANC branches are running out of time to nominate the next president; Mugabe stuns Zimbabwe and clings to power; and timeshare companies face a class action lawsuit from unhappy clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":143891,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211473","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=211473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211479,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211473\/revisions\/211479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}