{"id":270677,"date":"2018-09-11T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=270677"},"modified":"2018-09-11T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:05:38","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/270677\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-386\/","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.enca.com\/news\/crime-statistics-be-revealed\">The SAPS will release the latest crime stats today.<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/207087\/south-africa-crime-stats-2017-everything-you-need-to-know\/\">2017&#8217;s data<\/a><\/strong> showed big increases in carjacking and drug related crimes, while murder was also up. One of the biggest increases were incidents of cash-in-transit heists, which are again expected to climb in the 2018 data. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/mymoney\/moneyweb-tax\/sars-may-not-be-able-to-collect-40-of-its-r143-billion-debt-book\/\">SARS may not be able to collect R57 billion of its R143 billion loan book, which relates to old debt and disputed monies, acting chief officer for tax\u00a0Fabian Murray said<\/a><\/strong>. While it is questionable that the amount could ever be collected, Murray said the focus was on collecting the other R86 billion. [Moneyweb]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-09-10\/how-land-seizure-talks-have-hit-south-africa-s-farming-industry\">Land reform talks have hit South Africa&#8217;s agriculture industry hard, with confidences indices tracking lower, and property prices in a slump.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0The average price of agricultural land sold in July was R9,318 a hectare compared to R13,700 previously &#8211; while confidence levels have dropped to levels last seen in 2016. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/commoditiesNews\/idAFJ8N1V801L\">South Africa&#8217;s telecoms department says it is ready to step in an intervene in the MTN-Nigeria miss, if MTN asks it for help<\/a><\/strong>. MTN is heading to court to secure its assets in Nigeria after the government demanded $10.1 billion in penalties. The group said it is still in discussions with the Nigerian government. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand stretched its recovery to a third straight session on Monday, climbing further off two-year lows hit last week as investors saw an opportunity to buy the currency cheaply while the dollar\u2019s rally paused. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R15.15 to the dollar, R19.76 to the pound and R17.58 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest crime stats will be released today; it&#8217;s unlikely SARS will be able to collect 40% of its loan book; land reform talk has hit SA&#8217;s agriculture industry hard; and the government is ready to step in an help MTN with its Nigeria problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-270677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270677","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=270677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270691,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270677\/revisions\/270691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}