{"id":226281,"date":"2018-02-19T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T06:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=226281"},"modified":"2018-02-19T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T06:01:43","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/226281\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-246\/","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.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/companies\/mining\/2018-02-19-zwane-out-in-the-cold-as-ramaphosa-unlocks-mining-charter-impasse\/\">President Cyril Ramaphosa has sidelined\u00a0Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane and ended an impasse between government and the mining sector over the controversial mining charter.<\/a><\/strong> In a statement by Ramaphosa at the weekend, he said that the parties had agreed to end court processes, and head back to the negotiation table.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/02\/19\/reward-strategy-for-ajay-gupta-a-risky-move\">The Hawks has distanced itself from private parties offering rewards of over R1.5 million for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the Gupta brothers<\/a><\/strong> and former president Jacob Zuma&#8217;s son, Duduzane. The investigative unit said the rewards will cause people to chase after the money and could put them in harm&#8217;s way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-02-19-busisiwe-mkhwebane-faces-a-hefty-bill\/\">Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane faces legal bills of almost R1 million in her failed court battle against Absa and the SARB<\/a><\/strong>. A Friday ruling set aside Mkhwebane&#8217;s report on alleged apartheid-era looting by the then Bankoprp-group. In the ruling, the judge put a punitive cost order against the public protector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-02-16-00-sisulu-the-frontrunner-to-become-ramaphosas-deputy\">Lindiwe Sisulu, Baleka Mbete and Naledi Pandor are among some of the names being thrown around to take over the role of deputy president until the 2019 elections<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; with Sisulu a favourite for the position, the Mail &amp; Guardian reports.\u00a0President Cyril Ramaphosa met with Sisulu, the current Human Settlements Minister this past weekend, further fuelling speculation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand surrendered some gains on Friday but remained near its three-year best ahead of Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s maiden state of the nation address after he was sworn in as the country\u2019s president. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R11.66 to the dollar, R16.35 to the pound and R14.47 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa sidelines Zwane and breaks the impasse between government and the mining sector; the Hawks say offering over R1.5 million in rewards for the Gupta arrests could be dangerous; The public protector could be hit with a R1 million legal bill; and Ramaphosa is on the hunt for a new deputy president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":141863,"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":[9872,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226281","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\/226281","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=226281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226301,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226281\/revisions\/226301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}