{"id":216873,"date":"2017-12-15T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=216873"},"modified":"2017-12-15T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:22:51","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/216873\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-208\/","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:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/africaTech\/idAFL8N1OE73Q\">Steinhoff chairman Christo Wiese and his son Jacob have resigned from the board of the company to further ensure independent governance at the embattled retail group<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0His resignation comes a day after Steinhoff\u2019s second largest shareholder, the PIC, expressed discomfort about possible conflict of interest in having Wiese as interim chief executive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Suggestions for a new voting process at the ANC elective conference &#8211; which would give both leading candidates the opportunity to be deputy president should their presidential bid fail &#8211; has been rejected by both sides. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/politics\/2017-12-14-exclusive-anc-nec-scuppers-zumas-vote-plan\/\">It was suggested by SG Gwede Mantashe that the presidential and deputy vote be held separately, in hopes this would lead to a unified result.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>News of drafted state of emergency laws have caused an uproar among the public. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/284770\/state-of-emergency-regulations-drafted-by-justice-department\">Despite denials of its existence from the presidency, Rapport reiterated that high-placed sources confirmed it was real, and drafted by the Justice Department in 2016<\/a><\/strong>. However, it was not pushed forward due to constitutional concerns, and needed to be revised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2017\/12\/15\/da-suspends-de-lille-from-party-activities\">Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille has been suspended from the party&#8217;s activities and has been given an ultimatum to submit reasons why she should not be recalled as mayor<\/a><\/strong>. The party said there is enough evidence from its investigation of maladministration at the city to cause concern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South African stocks ended slightly higher on Thursday with Lonmin in demand following the announcement of a $382 million takeover by a local precious metals miner.<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Friday the rand was trading at R13.50 to the dollar, R18.15 to the pound and R15.90 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steinhoff&#8217;s Wiese steps down as chairman amid the accounting scandal; both sides of the ANC leadership battle have rejected the &#8216;unifying&#8217; voting process; the drafted state of emergency laws are real, but need to be revised; and Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille has been suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216873","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\/216873","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=216873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216891,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216873\/revisions\/216891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}