{"id":284548,"date":"2018-11-16T07:31:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T05:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=284548"},"modified":"2018-11-16T08:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T06:03:02","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-433","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/284548\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-433\/","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:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-11-16-00-anc-mobile-network-plans-fail\">The ANC&#8217;s plans to launch its own mobile network called 1912 Mobile for its 2019 elections campaign has hit a stumbling block.<\/a><\/strong> The network, said to be on Cell C&#8217;s MVNO platform, is intended to disseminate ANC news and content &#8211; however the managing parties have reportedly fallen out over shareholding of the plan. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2018-11-15-leaked-treasury-letter-shows-government-rifts-over-nhi\/\">A leaked letter has revealed rifts in government over National Health Insurance<\/a><\/strong>, with National Treasury not happy with the Department of Health making unsanctioned changes to policy, and not taking public comment into account. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL8N1XQ796\">The World Bank has warned that South Africa should avoid uncertainty as it moves to change the constitution to allow for land redistribution without compensation.<\/a><\/strong> The group said that investors will be looking closely at South Africa&#8217;s land laws, and being opaque in the process will drive them away. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/327306\/listen-why-tom-moyane-has-filed-an-urgent-application-challenging-his-axing\">Fired SARS commissioner Tom Moyabe has filed an urgent court application to have the decision to fire him reversed<\/a><\/strong>. Moyane&#8217;s lawyers are arguing that president Cyril Ramaphosa should have waited until the end of Moyane&#8217;s Constitutional Court application before firing him. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed for a third session in row on Thursday as local factors were overshadowed by offshore politics, with chaos around Britain\u2019s exit from the European Union boosting demand for emerging currencies.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Friday the rand was at R14.19 to the dollar, R18.14 to the pound and R16.08 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC&#8217;s plans to launch its own mobile network ahead of the elections has reportedly hit a stumbling block; Treasury and the Department of Health at odds over National Health Insurance; World Bank says South Africa must move cautiously with land reform; and Moyane applies for urgent court action to get his SARS job back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-284548","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\/284548","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=284548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284558,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284548\/revisions\/284558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}