{"id":288702,"date":"2018-12-03T07:07:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288702"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:07:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:07:51","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-444","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/288702\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-444\/","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>After a full weekend of stage 2 load shedding, Eskom has warned that things have not improved entering the new week, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KhuluPhasiwe\/status\/1069448646876377088\">with stage 2 load shedding again expected to be in effect from 09h00 to 22h00 on Monday<\/a><\/strong>. The power utility has several units out of service due to breakdowns. [Eskom]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/12\/03\/gauteng-traffic-congestion-to-worsen-says-sanral\">Traffic on Gauteng&#8217;s roads are just going to get worse, says Sanral, with R130 billion of new tolling projects put on ice because they can&#8217;t be funded.<\/a> <\/strong>Sanral was expected to pull in billions from e-tolling in the province, but has failed to get motorists on board. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-03\/charts-that-show-south-africa-s-recession-may-be-over\">South Africa may be out of recession, with the latest indicators pointing to a modest recovery in the third quarter.<\/a><\/strong> There have been recoveries in the trade and manufacturing sectors, which are driving GDP data upward &#8211; though pressure remains in the mining sector. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-12-02-de-lille-is-back-for-good\">Former Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille has revealed the name of her new political party &#8211; GOOD<\/a><\/strong>. De Lille dismissed criticisms of her move to launch a new party, and said it will provide a viable alternative for those who want &#8216;GOOD&#8217; governance. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened against the dollar on Friday as demand for riskier assets remained subdued ahead of the G20 summit and a meeting between the leaders of China and the United States this weekend. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R13.71 to the dollar, R17.52 to the pound and R15.56 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 2 load shedding  likely to hit again on Monday; Gauteng traffic is just going to get worse, Sanral says; South Africa might be about of recession; and De Lille unveils the name of her new political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":90550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-288702","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\/288702","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=288702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288704,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288702\/revisions\/288704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}