{"id":288930,"date":"2018-12-04T07:45:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288930"},"modified":"2018-12-04T07:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:45:46","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-445","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/288930\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-445\/","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:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2018\/12\/04\/ramaphosa-expected-to-name-new-npa-boss-today\">President Cyril Ramaphosa will name a new national director of public prosecutions today.<\/a><\/strong> A panel interviewed 11 potential candidates over the past month, which was narrowed down to five people: Andrea Johnson, Rodney de Kock, Shamiela Batohi, Siyabulela Mapoma and Simphiwe Mlotshwa. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KhuluPhasiwe\/status\/1069671076249174016\">Eskom will be implementing stage 2 load shedding once again today, from 09h00 to 22h00 as has become the norm for the past 5 days<\/a><\/strong>. Spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe said that\u00a0The prognosis is that the power system will remain constrained for most of this week, with some relief from Friday. [Eskom]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL8N1Y829D\">Victims of the listeriosis outbreak earlier this year have been granted a class action certificate, opening the way for them to sue Tiger Brands<\/a><\/strong>, who was fingered as a key source of the tainted meats that carried the disease. More than 200 people died in the outbreak, and 1,000 more were infected. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/zuma-to-parliament-anc-lists-spring-surprises-20181204\">Some ANC branches have nominated former president Jacob Zuma as a possible deployee to Parliament<\/a><\/strong>, as the party draws up its\u00a0lists of nominees for MP and MPL posts ahead of the 2019 elections. Zuma is still an ANC member in good standing, the branches said. [City Press]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed more than 1% against a softer dollar on Monday, in line with emerging markets and a fall in bond yields, as a temporary trade truce agreement between US and Chinese leaders supported demand for riskier assets. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R13.63 to the dollar, R17.37 to the pound and R15.50 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa will name a new head of the NPA today; stage 2 load shedding will hit again today; listeriosis victims have been granted a certificate to launch a class action lawsuit against Tiger Brands; and some ANC branches want Jacob Zuma to represent the ANC in parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-288930","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\/288930","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=288930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288998,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288930\/revisions\/288998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}