{"id":269159,"date":"2018-09-04T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=269159"},"modified":"2018-09-04T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T06:03:17","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/269159\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-381\/","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.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2018-09-04-zuma-satisfied-that-no-state-capture-evidence-implicates-him-in-wrongdoing\/\">Former president Jacob Zuma says he is &#8220;satisfied&#8221; that nothing presented before the Zondo commission into state capture has implicated him in criminal or ethical wrongdoing<\/a><\/strong>. This is according to a legal letter sent to the commission from Zuma&#8217;s lawyers. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/\">Stats SA will publish South Africa&#8217;s GDP data for the second quarter today at 11h30<\/a><\/strong>, with everyone looking out for signs of a technical recession. Economists believe that marginal growth will be reported, around 0.5% for the quarter. The first quarter of the year saw a 2.2% decline. [Stats SA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/eff-introduce-banks-amendment-bill\">The EFF will present its proposed bill to amend the Banks Act to allow state-owned companies to open up their own banks.<\/a><\/strong> The party is also pursuing the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank. The proposals are in private members bills, which sit outside of government&#8217;s planned legislation. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has given the all-clear regarding South Africa&#8217;s listeriosis crisis, saying no trace of the bacteria has been found in food for the last three months. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/09\/04\/motsoaledi-hints-at-litigation-over-listeriosis-outbreak\">However, he has hinted that legal action will still be pursued over the matter<\/a><\/strong>. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand was more than 1% lower on Monday as global emerging markets remained on the back foot, while stocks were flat in tandem with global markets. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R14.87 to the dollar, R19.13 to the pound and R17.26 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Zuma says nothing presented to the state capture commission implicates him in criminal or ethical misconduct; all eyes are on Stats SA to see whether South Africa missed a technical recession; the EFF wants all state owned companies to manage their own banks; and the listeria crisis is officially over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":106749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-269159","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\/269159","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=269159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269167,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269159\/revisions\/269167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}