{"id":285714,"date":"2018-11-21T07:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T05:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=285714"},"modified":"2018-11-21T07:35:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T05:35:34","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/285714\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-436\/","title":{"rendered":"5 important things happening in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what is happening in and affecting South Africa:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/11\/21\/malema-eff-will-testify-at-state-capture-inquiry-when-ready\">Pravin Gordhan has challenged the EFF and his other detractors to appear before the state capture commission to present their evidence and claims of him being a part of state capture.<\/a><\/strong> He said should be willing to go under oath and open themselves to cross examination. The EFF said it will testify when ready. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/momentum-amends-death-benefits-policy\"><strong>Momentum has acceded to public demands that it pay R2.4 million to a Durban widow whose husband died protecting her in a violent crime. <\/strong><\/a>The payout was given under a new policy change at the group, where it has added a special clause for circumstances where policy holders die in violent crimes. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/327907\/listen-zuma-s-affidavit-in-aid-of-tom-moyane-is-a-fascinating-move\">Former president Jacob Zuma has signed onto Tom Moyane&#8217;s court battle against president Cyril Ramaphosa as he fights to get his job at SARS back<\/a><\/strong>. Zuma has submitted an affidavit saying that Ramaphosa never had the power to fire Moyane as commissioner as his performance was never the scope of the SARS inquiry. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/companies\/tariff-hike-will-prop-up-eskom-moodys-vp-18203134\">Moody&#8217;s says that a tariff hike for Eskom &#8211; said to be 15% each year for the next three years &#8211; will go a long way to propping up the company and boosting its credit profile<\/a><\/strong>. Eskom is under severe financial pressure as it fights to keep the country&#8217;s lights on. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened on Tuesday in line with some other emerging market currencies as a dollar rally, trade tensions and US Federal Reserve comments on global growth dimmed investor appetite for riskier assets. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday the rand was at R14.08 to the dollar, R18.01 to the pound and R16.02 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordhan challenges the EFF to testify under oath and be cross examined at the state capture commission; Momentum has updated its policies to pay out in cases of death by violent crime; Zuma throws his support behind Moyane in court &#8211; which has everyone scratching their heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-285714","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\/285714","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=285714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285742,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285714\/revisions\/285742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}