{"id":281419,"date":"2018-11-02T08:16:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=281419"},"modified":"2018-11-02T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:16:45","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/281419\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-423\/","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>Fired SARS commissioner Tom Moyane has hit back at president Cyril Ramaphosa,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-11-02-ousted-tom-moyane-hits-back-at-president-ramaphosa\/\"> saying his decision to axe him was unconstitutional and pre-empted legal process that were already underway.<\/a> <\/strong>Various investigations found that Moyane was responsible for years of maladministration at SARS, which led to the R50 billion tax shortfall. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL8N1XC6YB\">A draft report on land expropriation without compensation has been submitted to parliament, showing overwhelming support for government&#8217;s plans to take land.<\/a><\/strong> The report was compiled after holding public hearings on the matter. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/325399\/we-expect-ramaphosa-to-fire-gigaba-the-president-needs-to-clean-house-cosatu\">Calls are now mounting for president Ramaphosa to fire disgraced home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba<\/a><\/strong>, after the Constitutional Court affirmed a lower court&#8217;s finding that he lied under oath and violated his oath of office. Cosatu, the DA, and other civil groups have called for Gigaba to be removed. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/mokonyane-speaks-out-against-laying-workers-sabc\">Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says that SABC employees should not be retrenched, and that paying executives salaries of R4 million is fine<\/a><\/strong>. She said that the solution to the group&#8217;s financial problems should rather be found in a review of its revenue model. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed on Thursday, recovering from a three-week low hit in the previous session, as investors dumped the dollar and jumped back into riskier assets. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was at R14.31 to the dollar, R18.61 to the pound and R16.36 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moyane says Ramaphosa firing him was unconstitutional; draft report shows &#8216;overwhelming support&#8217; for land expropriation without compensation; parties and unions want Gigaba gone; and Mokonyane says the insolvent SABC shouldn&#8217;t fire anyone and paying executives salaries of R5 million is fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":160097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-281419","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\/281419","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=281419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281421,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281419\/revisions\/281421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}