{"id":258903,"date":"2018-07-17T08:10:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T06:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=258903"},"modified":"2018-07-17T08:10:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T06:10:21","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/258903\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-347\/","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.fin24.com\/Economy\/sars-pulling-out-all-stops-to-reverse-moyane-near-disasters-accounting-body-20180716\">SARS is pulling out all the stops in its bid to undo the &#8220;near disastrous&#8221; policy changes made under suspended head Tom Moyane<\/a><\/strong>, as tax season gets into full swing. One of Moyane&#8217;s changes now coming back into focus was the dismantling of the\u00a0Large Business Centre, which focused on\u00a0multinational companies and high net worth individuals. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/eskom-warns-of-power-cuts-for-free-sate-municipalities\">Eskom is threatening to cut power to two municipalities in the Free State due to non-payment.<\/a> <\/strong>Should the Tokologo and Nala municipalities not pay up, power will be cut for 6 hours at a time, moving up to 14 hours if payment is not received by 24 July. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the ruling ANC rejects the notion of nationalising all the land in the country, saying that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-16\/anc-rejects-notion-s-africa-land-be-state-owned-president-says\">the land redistribution plans involve willing land-owners who want to be part of the solution<\/a><\/strong>. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/gauteng\/zupta-ties-killed-afrovoice-16065465\">AfroVoice lead\u00a0Mzwanele Manyi says that the group&#8217;s links to the Gupta family &#8211; which owned the paper before as The New Age &#8211; was what killed any hope of the company being rescued<\/a><\/strong> from financial straits. Manyi submitted an affidavit requesting the TNA Media be liquidated. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand rallied to a new one-month high on Monday, maintaining a surprise run fuelled by an uncertain dollar trajectory and a tidy return for investors looking for high yields outside developed markets. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was trading at R13.22 to the dollar, R17.51 to the pound and R15.48 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARS is working hard to undo the damage done by Tom Moyane; Eskom threatens to cut the lights of non-paying municipalities; Ramaphosa shoots down the notion of nationalising all land in South Africa; and association with the Guptas is what shut AfroVoice (The New Age) down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":80497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-258903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258903","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=258903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258913,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258903\/revisions\/258913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}