{"id":272975,"date":"2018-09-21T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=272975"},"modified":"2018-09-21T08:20:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:20:12","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/272975\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-394\/","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:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/09\/21\/ramaphosa-to-announce-measures-to-stimulate-economy\">President Cyril Ramaphosa will today deliver his plan to introduce a stimulus package to boost the South African economy<\/a><\/strong> amid a recession and increasing pressures on business and consumers. Economists and investors are hoping for Ramaphosa to bring some policy certainty to help settle markets. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/commoditiesNews\/idAFL8N1W65KK\">Ajay Gupta has put on record via affidavit a denial of all allegations made by Mcebisi Jonas in the state capture commission.<\/a> <\/strong>This includes denying that he offered Jonas a job as finance minister, and threatening to kill him if he spoke of the matter. Ajay Gupta, along with his brothers, are currently fugitives hiding out in Dubai. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Following the Constutional Court ruling decriminalising marijuana use in private spaces, the SAPS says it working on a new standard operating procedure to handle cases. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-09-21-00-clarity-needed-after-cannabis-ruling\">Until the directive is finalised &#8211; expected next week &#8211; the SAPS warned &#8216;stoners&#8217; to not think they are free of the law.<\/a><\/strong> [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/public-protector-slated-over-r19m-irregular-expenditure-17173037\">The office of the Public Protector is in trouble again after the auditor-general found that it had R19 million in irregular expenditure, dating back to 2006.<\/a> <\/strong>While the spending was done under three Public Protectors, the AG took aim as current incumbent Busisiwe Mkhwebane for failing to review and monitor compliance. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed to a three-week high against the dollar on Thursday after the central bank left its benchmark repo rate unchanged and the US currency slipped to its lowest since July.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Friday the rand was trading at R14.30 to the dollar, R18.97 to the pound and R16.85 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa is today expected to break down a stimulus package that will reinvigorate the country&#8217;s economy; Ajay Gupta denies ever meeting Mcebisi Jonas and threatening to kill him; the SAPS warned cannabis users to not think they are free from the law, as it plans a new directive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":143991,"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-272975","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\/272975","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=272975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272983,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272975\/revisions\/272983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}