{"id":246463,"date":"2018-05-23T07:09:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=246463"},"modified":"2018-05-23T07:09:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T05:09:31","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/246463\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-308\/","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>South Africa&#8217;s civil wage agreement is up in the air as several unions have rejected the offer. The deal, offering increases of up 7% this year, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-22\/south-africa-s-civil-servant-wage-deal-hangs-in-the-balance\">was signed by six unions affiliated with Cosatu, but four others have rejected it<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The wage bill is expected to hit R587 billion rand this year. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The plan to move Parliament to Pretoria are currently underway, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/304664\/feasibility-study-to-move-parliament-will-span-over-six-months\">with a feasibility study expected to commence soon, which will take around 6 months to complete<\/a><\/strong>. Government has stated that running Parliament in two cities is too expensive, and unsustainable. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-05-22-sassa-cancels-tender-process-to-find-cps-replacement\">Sassa has nuked its tender process to find a suitable replacement for CPS to pay social grants, sending the process back to square one<\/a><\/strong>. The invalid and unlawful CPS contract has been extended twice already, with a deadline set for September 2018 for Sassa to find a new service provider. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-05-22-parliament-hands-over-state-capture-evidence-to-zondo-inquiry\/\">Parliament has handed over the evidence collected during its inquiry into state capture at South Africa&#8217;s SOEs to the judicial commission of inquiry<\/a><\/strong>. Transcripts and other evidence that was presented to parliament in the process have been handed over, and National Assembly will work closely with the commission where required. [Times Live]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand staged a modest recovery on Tuesday, as the dollar retreated after a recent rally. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday, the rand was trading at R12.61 to the dollar, R16.92 to the pound and R14.83 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government wage increases up in the air as some unions reject the standing offer; plans to move Parliament to Pretoria are making progress; Sassa is back to square one after killing its tender process to find a replacement for CPS; and parliaments handed its state capture evidence over to the judicial commission of inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":128287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-246463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246463","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=246463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246465,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246463\/revisions\/246465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}