{"id":262603,"date":"2018-08-02T07:44:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T05:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=262603"},"modified":"2018-08-02T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T05:44:50","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/262603\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-359\/","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\/news\/south-africa\/gauteng\/broke-sabc-cant-pay-its-service-providers-16361857\">The SABC is broke and cannot pay its service providers<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; who have been informed that they won&#8217;t be getting paid for July. Among those who won&#8217;t be paid, are big production houses, who have reportedly been forced to turn to the banks for loans to stay afloat. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-08-01-saa-sa-express-merger-ready-for-lift-off\">Government is one step closer to merging SAA, SA Express, and Mango under one group management structure.<\/a><\/strong> SAA has been placed in the Public Enterprises portfolio, and discussions for &#8216;strategic alignment&#8217; are well underway. The merger would means that all resources and assets, including aircraft, will be pooled. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/08\/02\/ramaphosa-initiates-process-to-suspend-jiba-mrwebi\"><strong>President Cyril Ramaphosa has initiated the first steps to having deputy director of public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba and special Lawrence Mrwebi suspended.<\/strong><\/a> The duo, who have just returned to work after being on special leave, will have to make submissions for why they think they shouldn&#8217;t be suspended. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gun experts are weighing in on footage of EFF leader Julius Malema apparently firing off live rounds from a semi-automatic weapon during the party&#8217;s birthday celebrations. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-08-02-fool-metal-jacket-malema-was-definitely-firing-live-rounds-say-experts\/\">The EFF claims that Malema was firing blanks &#8211; however, experts say that it was definitely live rounds being shot off.<\/a><\/strong> [Times Select]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand bounced back late on Wednesday as investors bought the currency cheap ahead of a policy decision by the US central bank that could send the greenback higher. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday, the rand was trading at R13.27 to the dollar, R17.38 to the pound and R15.45 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broke SABC can&#8217;t afford to pay service providers for July; the SAA-SA Express merger is one step closer; Ramaphosa initiates process to suspend Jiba and Mrwebi; and gun experts say Malema was definitely not shooting blanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-262603","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\/262603","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=262603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262611,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262603\/revisions\/262611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}