{"id":270959,"date":"2018-09-12T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T06:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=270959"},"modified":"2018-09-12T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T06:06:11","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/270959\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-387\/","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.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/ramaphosa-on-land-just-relax-20180911\">President Cyril Ramaphosa is again trying to instil calm in the country around the land issue, saying that everything will be handled by the rule of law<\/a><\/strong>, and that nothing will arise that would be cause for other countries to impose sanctions on South Africa. He pointed to &#8216;right wing&#8217; interests as spreading lies about the process. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/economy\/2018-09-12-investors-are-waiting-for-an-end-to-sas-policy-stalemate-says-moodys\/\">South Africa is likely to sit in economic limbo until after the 2019 elections, as investors take a &#8216;wait and see&#8217; approach to the country as policy uncertainty lingers.<\/a><\/strong> While Ramaphosa&#8217;s replacement of Zuma was welcomed, there is a belief he is hamstrung until his position has been solidified after the elections. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-09-11-ace-magashule-finally-talks-about-that-meeting-with-jacob-zuma\/\">ANC secretary general Ace Magashule has confirmed that he met with former president Jacob Zuma as weekend reports stated &#8211; however, he denies that it was to plot against Ramaphosa<\/a><\/strong>. He also bumped into the other officials mentioned, but says that it was a surprising coincidence. [Times Live]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/life\/world-sinks-10-year-happiness-low-survey\">A new Gallup poll shows that the world is at its unhappiest place in over a decade,<\/a><\/strong> led by sub-Saharan Africa where civil unrest, poor healthcare and lack of aid has made 70% of the countries down in the dumps. The trend has been seen across the world, though, with even richer countries&#8217; moods dipping. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed on Tuesday as emerging market currencies broadly staged a rally against the dollar following a deep selloff, with investors seeing an opportunity to buy the currency cheap. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday the currency was trading at R15.10 to the dollar, R19.63 to the pound and R17.49 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa again calls for calm over the land reform talks; South Africa is likely to remain in economic limbo until after the 2019 elections; ANC SG Ace Magashule admits he did meet with Zuma, but not to plot against the president; and the world is at its unhappiest in a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":257225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-270959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270959","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=270959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270961,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270959\/revisions\/270961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}