{"id":259393,"date":"2018-07-19T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=259393"},"modified":"2018-07-19T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T06:10:14","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/259393\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-349\/","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=\"http:\/\/amabhungane.co.za\/article\/2018-07-18-christo-wiese-tullow-oil-and-enss-tax-dodging-services\">A new report by investigative journalists amaBhungane claims that billionaire Christo Wiese has been implicated in an &#8216;elaborate tax dodging scheme&#8217;.<\/a><\/strong> The group has reportedly seen legal papers filed by SARS, claiming R200 million in missed tax back from Wiese. Wiese has denied the allegations. [amaBhungane]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/analysts-expect-sa-reserve-bank-to-keep-repo-rate-unchanged-20180719-2\">The Reserve Bank&#8217;s Monetary Policy Committee is expected to make a rate announcement today, with most analysts and economists expecting it hold rates.<\/a><\/strong> The current repo rate is at 6.5%. June&#8217;s inflation figures were below market expectations, but economists say that it is no reason to hike rates right now. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-07-18-anc-staffer-fired-for-alleged-involvement-in-cash-in-transit-heists\">An ANC employee has been fired after the DA exposed his involvement in cash-in-transit heists which are plaguing Joburg.<\/a> <\/strong>The employee worked at the ANC&#8217;s HQ, Luthuli House, and it has been confirmed by the party that he was dismissed for his involvement in &#8216;serious offences&#8217;. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/africaTech\/idAFL8N1UE6DM\">Thousands of pages of US intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela have been made public<\/a><\/strong>, revealing that the former statesman was still on the USA&#8217;s radar as a potential &#8216;communist menace&#8217; even after he was released from prison. The documents were released by the\u00a0Property of the People, who won the rights to the documents through litigation. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand was slightly weaker on Wednesday despite better-than-anticipated inflation and retail sales figures, as the dollar reached two-week highs. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was trading at R13.28 to the dollar, R17.35 to the pound and R15.46 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Wiese accused of dodging taxes &#8211; and SARS wants him to pay up; the Reserve Bank is expected to hold rates today; an ANC employee has been fired over alleged involvement in cash-in-transit heists; and thousands of US intelligence documents on Mandela have been made public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-259393","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\/259393","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=259393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259419,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259393\/revisions\/259419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}