{"id":275249,"date":"2018-10-04T08:35:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T06:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=275249"},"modified":"2018-10-04T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T06:36:17","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/275249\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-402\/","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>Finance minister Nlanhla Nene told the state capture commission how he was pressured to approve costly nuclear energy plans for the country &#8211; but turned it down each time. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/statecaptureinquiry-nene-in-a-gupta-bind-17346830\">However, he still faces some pressure, trying to distance himself from the Gupta family, having admitted meeting them four times in one year.<\/a><\/strong> [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/no-forced-public-service-retrenchments-as-government-readies-for-jobs-summit-20181004-2\">The government says that there will be no forced retrenchments in the public sector, as it prepared to launch a jobs summit in the country<\/a><\/strong>. There were initially plans to cut a reported 30,000 jobs in a bid to save R4 billion, however those plans have now been shelved. [News24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.co.za\/advertising-standards-authority-of-south-africa-asasa-served-with-notice-of-liquidation-2018-10\">The Advertising Standards Authority has been issued a notice of liquidation<\/a><\/strong>, though it promises a replacement body will open immediately. The reason it is being liquidated, is because the group&#8217;s main creditor, SARS, rejected an offer from the ASA. [BI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/mineweb\/budding-bromance-between-miners-and-gwede-mantashe\/\">The mining industry is singing the praises of mining minister Gwede Mantashe, hailing what it calls a &#8216;new dawn&#8217; following the troubled years of Mosebenzi Zwane<\/a><\/strong>. While the recently published mining charter remains imperfect, it is a result of negotiation and compromise from both parties &#8211; something that was absent in the past. [Moneyweb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand was flat in afternoon trade on Wednesday, giving up earlier gains as a solid US dollar kept pressure on emerging markets, while the bourse was led lower for a second session by banks and gold stocks. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was at R14.73 to the dollar, R19.06 to the pound and R16.91 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nene spills the beans on how Zuma tried to push through nuclear &#8211; but still has a Gupta problem; government&#8217;s plan to axe 30,000 public sector jobs has been shelved; the ASA is being liquidated; and the mining industry is warming up to Mantashe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":71456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-275249","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\/275249","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=275249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275253,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275249\/revisions\/275253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}