{"id":252449,"date":"2018-06-19T07:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T05:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=252449"},"modified":"2018-06-19T07:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T05:33:31","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/252449\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-327\/","title":{"rendered":"5 important things happening in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what is happening in and affecting South Africa today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/eskom-unions-to-resume-wage-talks-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wage negotiations between striking workings and Eskom are set to continue on Tuesday, with the power utility making it clear that it was willing to improve on its original 0% wage increase offer.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Our shareholder, which is government, has said &#8216;do something to improve the situation and improve the offer&#8217;. Clearly, it means there&#8217;s willingness on the part of government to assist us where possible,\u201d said Eskom spokesperson, Khulu Phasiwe. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/06\/19\/information-regulator-wants-answers-from-liberty-over-data-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa\u2019s new Information Regulator wants answers from Liberty about how\u00a0its data breach\u00a0occurred, and\u00a0has also asked for information on the extent of the breach<\/a><\/strong>. The company announced at the weekend that hackers stole emails and related attachments. It&#8217;s understood hackers have asked for money to prevent the data being made public. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/companies\/telecoms-and-technology\/2018-06-19-vodacom-wins-latest-round-against-mtn-with-r325m-transnet-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The High Court dismissed MTN\u2019s bid to have Transnet\u2019s R325 million deal with Vodacom set aside on Monday<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0MTN said in its court papers that it wanted Transnet\u2019s contract with Vodacom, which was signed in February and involves the provision of mobile voice and data services, to be set aside as the tender process had been &#8220;marred with irregularities&#8221;. [BusinessDay]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-06-19-kasrils-our-spies-spook-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Former Intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils has warned tha<\/strong>t <strong>South Africa\u2019s intelligence agencies\u00a0degenerated into \u201can absolute mess\u201d under the Jacob Zuma administration, and have themselves become a threat to the country\u2019s security.<\/strong><\/a> He added that the weakening of the state and security\u00a0in the country meant that questions of espionage threats had begun to intensify. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s rand tumbled to a new six-month low on Monday as concerns over the economy following weekend power outages worsened the effects of a global selloff of emerging market currencies. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Tuesday, the rand was trading at R13.84 to the dollar, R18.36 to the pound and R16.10 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom wage negotiations are set to continue; the new information regulator wants answers about the Liberty breach; Vodacom scores another big win over MTN; and South Africa&#8217;s spies are now a threat to their own country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":77487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-252449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252449","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=252449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252467,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252449\/revisions\/252467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}