{"id":219475,"date":"2018-01-16T07:56:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T05:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=219475"},"modified":"2018-01-16T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:00:14","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/219475\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-222\/","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:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/gupta-arrest-warrant-imminent-20180115\">The Hawks have reportedly secured an arrest warrant for one of the Gupta brothers and a number of the family&#8217;s associates, the City Press reports<\/a><\/strong>. The paper cited senior officials in the specialised investigation unity, just hours after the paper confirmed that the NPA would be freezing R1.6 billion in assets related to the Gupta-linked Trillian and McKinsey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/money\/sars-could-soon-tax-your-bitcoin-revenue\">SARS has warned citizens not to try and hide their cryptocurrency earnings, saying that it should be declared along with other assets and investments during tax season<\/a><\/strong>. The revenue service is currently working on guidelines for crypto traders, and is consulting with global tech companies and other governments on how to do so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/companies\/energy\/2018-01-16-exclusive-debt-axe-threatens-eskoms-survival\/\">Eskom is struggling to sort out its interim financial statements over worries that it won&#8217;t be able to finance its debt.<\/a> <\/strong>The group is expected to issue a $1 billion bond, which would help &#8211; however it may have to publish its less-than-stellar financial results before then. Eskom&#8217;s interim results are expected before the end of January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/commoditiesNews\/idAFL8N1PA33L\">President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s future will be discussed this week, senior sources within the party have told Reuters.<\/a> <\/strong>The sources confirmed that the issue of Zuma&#8217;s presidency will be raised at a meeting being held on Thursday. New ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s supporters will suggest that Zuma step down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand strengthened slightly on Monday, helped by a weaker dollar and by reports that the ANC party was preparing to discuss whether President Jacob Zuma should step down as head of state. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R12.31 to the dollar, R16.97 to the pound and R15.09 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawks have reportedly secured an arrest warrant for a Gupta brother and associates; SARS warns crypto traders to not try and hide their earnings; Eskom is struggling to meet its debt commitments; and Zuma&#8217;s future as president will be discussed this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219475","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\/219475","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=219475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219483,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219475\/revisions\/219483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}