{"id":288226,"date":"2018-11-30T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288226"},"modified":"2018-11-30T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:32:05","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-443","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/288226\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-443\/","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.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2018-11-29-firm-that-won-r1bn-joburg-fleet-contract-paid-malema-eff-slush-fund\/\">A new investigation suggests that the EFF benefitted from a R1.2 billion fleet contract in the City of Joburg.<\/a><\/strong> The report alleges that the EFF influenced the tender process &#8211; however it also casts the DA in a bad light, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/329061\/the-city-of-joburg-may-have-turned-a-blind-eye-to-eff-corruption-amabhungane\">implying that the party gave the EFF authority in the city to do so<\/a><\/strong>. [Daily Maverick, 702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-11-30-00-shivambu-used-vbs-money-for-flat\">Around R400,000 of the billions looted from VBS Mutual Bank was used as a deposit to for a R2.7 million flat for EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu<\/a><\/strong>. A weekend report said that the apartment was robbed and Shivambu&#8217;s belongings were stolen &#8211; however the politician now denies this took place, or that he lives there. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>President Cyril Ramaphosa has responded to disgraced SARS commissioner Tom Moyane&#8217;s case against his firing &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-11-30-moyane-neither-fit-nor-entitled-to-lead-sars-says-ramaphosa\/\">saying that Moyane is not fit or entitled to lead SARS.<\/a><\/strong> The president said Moyane is chasing only his own personal interests and not thinking about the needs of the country. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/i-want-my-country-back-carolus-tells-inquiry-as-she-concludes-testimony-18319214\">The state capture commission has heard how former minister Malusi Gigaba had lied to parliament, and fought against the board of SAA to influence the failing group&#8217;s business operations.<\/a><\/strong> He allegedly tried to get SAA to drop a lucrative route to Mumbai so that a Gupta-linked company could pick it up. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed against a softer dollar on Thursday, in line with emerging markets and a fall in bond yields, as dovish comments from US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell boosted demand for riskier assets. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was at R13.66 to the dollar, R17.46 to the pound and R15.57 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New investigation implicates the EFF and the DA in dodgy tenders in Joburg; EFF deputy Floyd Shivambu again linked to money stolen in the VBS heist; Ramaphosa shoots down Tom Moyane&#8217;s bid to get his job at SARS back; state capture commission hears testimony about how Gigaba lied to parliament, and tried to help the Guptas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-288226","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\/288226","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=288226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288242,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288226\/revisions\/288242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}