{"id":215653,"date":"2017-12-11T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=215653"},"modified":"2017-12-11T07:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T05:56:20","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/215653\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-204\/","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:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2017-12-08-00-multichoice-bully-boy-or-dirty-player\">The latest in the Multichoice &#8216;capture&#8217; scandal are allegations that the pay-TV group threatened to drop eNCA from its channel offerings, if e-tv did not drop its pursuit of encrypted set-top boxes<\/a><\/strong>. Multichoice has been accused of trying to &#8216;pay off&#8217; the likes of the SABC and Gupta-linked ANN7, to influence government policy on STBs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/commoditiesNews\/idAFL8N1OA0TK\">Embattled retail group Steinhoff has entered into survival mode as it appoints PwC as an independent investigator into its business operations<\/a><\/strong>, with Deloitte working on its financials, and\u00a0Moelis &amp; Co as advisors in its dealings with investors. Steinhoff&#8217;s value tanked last week on the back of an apparent fraud scandal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2017\/12\/11\/zwane-takes-swipes-at-judiciary-over-shaun-abrahams-ruling\">Known supporters and allies of president Jacob Zuma are attacking the country&#8217;s judiciary following Friday&#8217;s ruling that NDPP Shaun Abrahams should be removed from office<\/a><\/strong>, and that deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa should appoint his successor. Zuma allies say the biggest issue with the ruling is removing the president&#8217;s powers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/da-welcomes-sassa-services-agreement\">An agreement between the South Africa Post Office and Sassa has been reached over the payment of social grants in the country<\/a><\/strong>, following months of alleged delaying tactics by social development minister Bathabile Dlamini. The payments will be handled in a hybrid model, which will incorporate\u00a0banks, commercial retailers, and small businesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand strengthened on Friday after a court ruled that President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s appointment of a state prosecutor to decide whether to reinstate corruption charges against him was not valid, while shares in Steinhoff plunged further. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R13.64 to the dollar, R18.27 to the pound and R16.07 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mulitchoice has been accused of trying to bully e-tv into buckling to its demands; Steinhoff is in survival mode as it appoints independent third parties to help manage its business; Zuma allies are not happy with Friday&#8217;s NPA ruling; and SAPO and Sassa finally reach an agreement on social grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215653","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\/215653","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=215653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215661,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215653\/revisions\/215661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}