{"id":263179,"date":"2018-08-06T07:43:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T05:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=263179"},"modified":"2018-08-06T07:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T05:43:23","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/263179\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-361\/","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>Unions are expected to finally accept Eskom&#8217;s wage offer, which should decrease the risk of load shedding significantly. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/labour\/2018-08-06-eskom-workers-offered-a-one-off-cash-payment-of-r10000\/\">Workers have until Wednesday to accept the new offer, which will see wages hiked by 7.5%, and a once-off bonus of R10,000 paid out.<\/a><\/strong> The previous offer had a R5,000 bonus. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/314087\/south-africans-expected-to-break-emigration-record-this-year\">South Africans are expected to break local emigration records this year, according to experts<\/a><\/strong>, as visa groups note a massive increase in locals applying to move to other countries, particularly the UK. Poor education, a lack of jobs and socio-political issues like land reform and high crime are the major push factors. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/de-lille-resignation-has-tongues-wagging\">Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille says her resignation was not part of an agreement with the DA<\/a><\/strong>, and was done in the interest of the future governance of the metro, and because she no longer wanted to take the party&#8217;s abuse. De Lille will step down at the end of October, in what her opponents have called an &#8216;admission of guilt&#8217;. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/two-eastern-cape-towns-to-start-water-shedding-as-dam-empties-20180805\">Two towns in the Eastern Cape are being forced into &#8216;water shedding&#8217; after the Kouga dam continues to dry up<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Hankey and Patensie in the Kouga municipality will have water cut off during certain periods due to critically low levels of available water, with two designated &#8216;washing days&#8217; a week. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand gained on Friday as US job growth slowed more than expected, easing pressure on emerging market currencies that have retreated this week on likely return of a greenback rally. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was trading at R13.35 to the dollar, R17.34 to the pound and R15.43 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom workers are expected to finally accept the power utility&#8217;s wage offer; South Africa might break its own emigration record this year, experts say; De Lille says there was no agreement with the DA &#8211; her resignation was her own decision; and towns in the Eastern Cape will be cut off from water as dams empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":75316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-263179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263179","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=263179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263199,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263179\/revisions\/263199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}