{"id":281737,"date":"2018-11-05T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T06:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=281737"},"modified":"2018-11-05T08:21:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T06:21:16","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/281737\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-424\/","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\/gigaba-brown-implicated-state-capture-eskom-report\"> Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba and former public enterprises minister Lynne Brown have been implicated in a new draft report alleging they were key to state capture at Eskom<\/a><\/strong>. The report also implicated global consultancy McKinsey and auditing firm KPMG as &#8216;mercenaries&#8217; in the plot. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL8N1XF0IL\">Meanwhile, Gigaba says that he will fight every attempt to have him removed from his position<\/a><\/strong>, adding that resigning would be &#8216;giving into a devious plot&#8217;. He said he is ready for war, and will challenge every allegation of corruption against him. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/11\/05\/anc-nec-slams-mboweni-over-remarks-on-saa\">The ANC&#8217;s NEC has slammed comments by finance minister Tito Mboweni, who said that failed airline SAA should be shut down<\/a><\/strong>. The ANC said that SAA would not be shut down, and implored its deployees to stick to party resolutions. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/ramaphosas-top-10-quotes-on-why-moyane-should-accept-his-fate-20181105-2\">President Cyril Ramaphosa has given reasons why SARS commissioner Tom Moyane needs to accept his fate and leave the revenue service<\/a><\/strong>. Among the reasons given are that it&#8217;s in the public interest, there is no trust in Moyane, and that any good leader would have already stepped down amid the scandal\/ [Fin24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand extended its rally on Friday, brushing off a solid jobs report from the United States to hit a fresh pre-budget high as domestic developments and a global return of risk appetite gave the currency momentum.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Monday the rand was at R14.34 to the dollar, R18.63 to the pound and R16.34 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report implicates Gigaba in state capture again &#8211; but he says he&#8217;s ready for war against the &#8216;plot&#8217; to remove him; the ANC slams Mboweni over his SAA remarks; and Ramaphosa tells Moyane that a good leader would have resigned from SARS a long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-281737","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\/281737","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=281737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281749,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281737\/revisions\/281749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}