{"id":221889,"date":"2018-01-30T07:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T05:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=221889"},"modified":"2018-01-30T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T05:52:20","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/221889\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-232\/","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.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-01-30-ace-plays-his-cards-but-his-support-of-zuma-could-backfire\/\">The ANC is again showing its divisions in the matter of president Jacob Zuma&#8217;s early exit<\/a><\/strong>. Secretary general Ace Mageshule and his deputy Jessie Duarte have both come out in support of Zuma, saying he is not going anywhere &#8211; directly contradicting new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa who has made it clear there were discussions for Zuma to go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-01-30-blunder-changed-employee-definition-in-minimum-wage-bill\/\">The National Minimum Wage Bill is facing a hiccough over the definition of &#8217;employee&#8217; in the final document.<\/a><\/strong> Unions are angry that the broader term &#8216;worker&#8217; &#8211; which would have covered contract and independent workers in vulnerable fields &#8211; was replaced with the narrower &#8217;employee&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/energy\/eskom-to-release-interim-results-today-12996254\">Eskom is expected to release its delayed interim results today, with analysts anticipating a clear message on how the group will avoid a liquidity crisis<\/a><\/strong> while it deals with poor governance and corruption. Eskom was downgraded by ratings agencies late last week over concerns about its finances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom\/guptas-to-appear-before-eskom-inquiry-in-march-chair-20180130\">The Guptas and their associates are scheduled to make an appearance before the inquiry into mismanagement at SOEs in March.<\/a><\/strong> A formal invite to the family is yet to be sent, but the adopted schedule by the inquiry has been accepted and adopted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened on Monday as the dollar recovered and government bonds sold off, while investors waited anxiously for a results announcement by cash-strapped power utility Eskom. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R12.00 to the dollar, R16.85 to the pound and R14.84 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC&#8217;s divisions are showing over the Zuma exit saga; a new fight is brewing over the National Minimum Wage; Eskom is expected to publish its interim results today; and the Guptas are scheduled to appear before the SOE inquiry in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":167757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221889","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\/221889","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=221889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221911,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221889\/revisions\/221911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}