{"id":287230,"date":"2018-11-27T07:33:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T05:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=287230"},"modified":"2018-11-27T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T05:33:11","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/287230\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-440\/","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=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/328627\/moyane-fights-for-his-job\">Disgraced SARS commissioner Tom Moyane is continuing to fight for his job back, despite the Constitutional Court dismissing his case.<\/a><\/strong> Moyane will not approach the High Court on an urgent basis to be reinstated and interdict a successor being appointed. The Nugent commission is expected to deliver its final report this Friday. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/companies\/eskom-paid-more-than-r1bn-to-guptas-18274608\">Eskom has paid Gupta coal mine Optimum R1 billion this year so far &#8211; for coal it has not even received<\/a><\/strong>. The payments are largely due to contractual obligations left from Mosebenzi Zwane&#8217;s tenure are minerals ministers. Eskom is currently facing a financial crisis as well as a coal crisis, as the country&#8217;s grid remains on edge. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2018-11-26-late-afternoon-jabs-unravel-mzwanele-manyis-one-sided-show\/\">Former ANC spin doctor\u00a0Mzwanele Manyi&#8217;s testimony at the state capture commission has painted the Guptas as victims of a false narrative.<\/a> <\/strong>He shrugged away massive discrepancies in government ad spend between other publications and the Gupta media, and also dismissed most of the testimony presented to the commission thus far. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/tit-tat-eff-guns-gordhan\">Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan and the EFF have launched court battles against each other<\/a><\/strong>, as politicking heats up ahead of the 2019 elections. Gordhan is taking on the EFF for defamation and inciting violence against him, while the EFF&#8217;s case is based on its allegations of corruption against Gordhan. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed slightly against a softer dollar on Monday, in line with emerging markets, as focus remained on clues on the US Federal Reserve\u2019s 2019 hiking cycle and the high-stakes meeting between the leaders of China and the US. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R13.90 to the dollar, R17.81 to the pound and R15.76 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Moyane heading back to court as he fights tooth and nail to get his job back at SARS; Eskom pays Gupta coal company R1 billion for coal it hasn&#8217;t received; Manyi&#8217;s state capture testimony paints the Guptas as victims of a &#8216;false narrative&#8217;; and Gordhan and the EFF take each other on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":160097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-287230","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\/287230","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=287230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287246,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287230\/revisions\/287246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}