{"id":283358,"date":"2018-11-12T07:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T05:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=283358"},"modified":"2018-11-12T07:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T05:21:29","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/283358\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-429\/","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>Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has come under fire from opposition parties for meeting with the Guptas &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/sunday-tribune\/news\/pravingordhan-heres-the-proof-eff-pg-did-not-lie-about-guptas-17853306\">however, the minister admitted as much at a parliamentary Q&amp;A at the height of the breaking state capture scandal.<\/a><\/strong> Gordhan maintains he only ever saw the Guptas at government events or happenstance at events. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/eskoms-coal-stockpiles-deteriorate-further\/\">Eskom&#8217;s coal crisis is deepening, with five power stations now below the required 10 days&#8217; stockpile.<\/a><\/strong> The power utility is now exposed with the rainy season upon us, and the likelihood of load shedding is increasing. [Moneyweb]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/economy\/banks-help-home-affairs-issue-more-smart-ids-and-passports-17837933\">The Department of Home Affairs is planning on expanding its partnership with SA banks to help issue smart IDs and passports<\/a><\/strong>. Banks have already helped issue over 168,000 IDs at 14 pilot branches, with the plan to add 20 more branches in other major urban centres. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-11-11-new-twist-emerges-in-sabc-multichoice-saga\/\">The Competition Commission has ruled that the content sharing deal between Multichoice and the SABC in 2013 constitutes a merger<\/a><\/strong>, and the body wants to register the transaction as such, or face being in violation of the country&#8217;s competition laws. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened on Friday in line with emerging market currencies as indications the United States central bank would stay on a policy tightening path drained the demand for risk that followed US election results. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R14.32 to the dollar, R18.51 to the pound and R16.21 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordhan told parliament about his interactions with the Guptas in 2016; more Eskom power stations running out of coal; Home Affairs to expand its partnership with banks to issue smart IDs; and the Competition Commission says the 2013 Multichoice-SABC deal was actually a merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":139895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-283358","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\/283358","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=283358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283364,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283358\/revisions\/283364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}