{"id":286882,"date":"2018-11-26T07:37:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T05:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=286882"},"modified":"2018-11-26T07:37:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T05:37:19","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-439","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/286882\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-439\/","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.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2018-11-25-jeff-radebe-tried-to-seize-treasury-power\/\">Energy minister Jeff Radebe has been accused of trying to help former president Jacob Zuma usurp power from National Treasury and take control of the national budget.<\/a><\/strong> Radebe allegedly tried to push the move under the pretence that Treasury was not aligning to the national development plan. [Times Live]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-11-25-statecaptureinquiry-manyis-back\">The state capture commission will continue today with Gupta media boss\u00a0Mzwanele Manyi set to take the stand.<\/a> <\/strong>Manyi, who is a former Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) head, is expected to give more insight into who was behind the New Age business breakfasts and other allegations of corruption. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/11\/26\/ramaphosa-sa-must-protect-gordhan-and-others-who-stand-against-corruption\">President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africa to rally around Pravin Gordhan in his fight against corruption.<\/a><\/strong> Gordhan has been subject to false claims by the EFF in a political take-down attempt during his state capture testimony. Ramaphosa said Gordhan is being targeted by those who are themselves involved in corrupt activities. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/eff-da-in-twitter-spat-over-da-chief-whips-qualifications-20181125\">The DA is coming under fire from political opponents over the qualifications &#8211; or lack thereof &#8211; of its chief whip John Steenhuisen<\/a><\/strong>. Steenhuisen is being criticised for having only a matric as his highest qualification. The DA has in the past used a lack of tertiary qualifications as a metric of incompetence among government officials. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand retreated in thin trade on Friday after hitting its highest level in more than three months in the previous session when the central bank hiked interest rates. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R13.84 to the dollar, R17.73 to the pound and R15.70 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Jeff Radebe has been accused of trying to usurp Treasury&#8217;s control over the national budget; Gupta media &#8216;buyer&#8217; Mzwanele Manyi set to testify at the state capture commission today; Ramaphosa calls on South Africans to rally around Gordhan; and the DA is under fire for apparent hypocrisy over qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":142652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-286882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286882","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=286882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286906,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286882\/revisions\/286906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}