{"id":236367,"date":"2018-04-09T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T06:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=236367"},"modified":"2018-04-09T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T06:03:18","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/236367\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-278\/","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.iol.co.za\/business-report\/economy\/its-make-or-break-for-new-pay-deal-14326784\">Today is D-day for the government to sort out its public wage increases, as it failed to reach an agreement with unions last week<\/a><\/strong>. The over 1.3 million people employed by government do not yet know how much more they will be earning this year, after the new financial year started on 1 April. Unions want CPI+3%, while government is offering CPI for juniors and CPI+1% for senior positions. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/deadline-guptas-appear-indian-tax-officials\/\">The Gupta brothers have until the end of today to appear before Indian tax authorities on suspicions of money laundering<\/a><\/strong>. The brothers have reportedly asked for another week extension. The tax authorities had already extended this deadlines three times before, and they have already skipped on two other meetings. [SABC]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/those-reports-are-just-hogwash-kzn-anc-backs-ramaphosa\">The KZN branch of the ANC has denied weekend reports that its members are working on a secret plan to oust president Cyril Ramaphosa<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; failing which, it will split the party&#8217;s vote and align with a pro-Zuma political group in the 2019 elections.\u00a0ANC KZN interim committee co-ordinator, Sihle Zikalala described the claims as bizarre, saying it supported the ANC&#8217;s goal of unity. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/04\/09\/msimanga-recall-clause-to-deal-with-members-that-bring-da-into-disrepute\">The DA has elected its leadership team that will take on the ANC at the 2019 general elections.<\/a> <\/strong>Mmusi Maimane stood unopposed as leader of the party, as was the case with\u00a0federal council chairman, James Selfe. The part also adopted a new recall clause in its constitution that would make it easier to recall members who were bringing the party into disrepute. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened on Friday as resurgent U.S.-China trade tensions and concerns about a slow recovery in the domestic economy soured investor sentiment, while stocks edged higher. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was trading at R11.98 to the dollar, R16.88 to the pound and R14.70 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is out of time to negotiate wage increases for 1.3 million public workers; the Guptas have until the end of today to appear before Indian tax authorities; KZN ANC leaders deny reports that the branch is looking to oust Ramaphosa; and the DA elects its team to lead the 2019 election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20450,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236367","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=236367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236383,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236367\/revisions\/236383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}