{"id":284290,"date":"2018-11-15T07:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T05:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=284290"},"modified":"2018-11-15T07:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T05:28:57","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-432","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/284290\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-432\/","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\/11\/15\/eskom-pens-new-coal-deals-can-t-guarantee-keeping-lights-on\">Eskom says it has signed 14 new coal agreements, but cannot guarantee that load shedding won&#8217;t plunge South Africa into darkness before the end of the year.<\/a><\/strong> More Eskom power stations are running out of coal supply, and the group has taken to burning diesel to keep lights on. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/gauteng-anc-national-government-decide-e-tolls\">Despite its protests against e-tolling, the Gauteng branch of the ANC says that only national government can do away with e-tolls.<\/a><\/strong> However, government has made it clear that it supports the system and that it won&#8217;t be scrapped, urging people to pay their outstanding fees. The ANC in Gauteng wants alternatives. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-11-14-we-need-r3bn-to-avoid-collapse-sabc-tells-scopa\">The SABC says its needs a R3 billion government guarantee to avoid collapse<\/a><\/strong>, it told parliament\u2019s standing committee on public accounts. The broadcaster said that it had R1.3 billion in debt and wasn&#8217;t pulling enough revenue to pay it off. It also said that 70% of its expenditure went to wages. [M&amp;G]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-11-14-abrahams-ready-to-answer-gordhans-claims-at-zondo-inquiry\/\">Former national director of public prosecutions Shaun Abrahams is ready to testify at the Zondo State Capture Commission<\/a><\/strong> after testimony from Pravin Gordhan implicated him in the scandal. Gordhan accused Abrahams of being part of a plot to remove him from his then position as finance minister. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand rallied more than one percent on Wednesday after the dollar was subdued by data showing US consumer prices increasing at a moderate pace. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was trading at R14.32 to the dollar, R18.63 to the pound and R16.23 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom can&#8217;t guarantee that it can keep lights on; despite its protests, the Gauteng ANC says only national government can actually do anything about e-tolls; the SABS says it needs R3 billion from government to avoid collapse; and Shaun Abrahams says he&#8217;s ready to testify at the state capture commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":72374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-284290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284290","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=284290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284292,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284290\/revisions\/284292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}