{"id":291804,"date":"2018-12-31T07:37:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=291804"},"modified":"2018-12-31T07:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:37:43","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/291804\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-461\/","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.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-28\/south-africa-gasoline-to-fall-to-lowest-since-march-next-month\">While South African motorists can expect to see a second major drop in petrol in as many months<\/a><\/strong>, analysts have warned that it will do little to ease the burden on the economy, which is in for a rough ride in 2019. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/watch-umalusi-approves-2018-matric-results\">Matrics will be able to see their results on 4 January 2019, with education body Umulasi signing off on this year&#8217;s results<\/a><\/strong>. Future matrics may get their results later, with Umulasi saying that the current release window putting pressure on stakeholders to get a lot of work done in a short amount of time. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/reclaimclifton-three-to-face-charges-over-sheep-slaughter-18649194\">The City of Cape Town and the SPCA will lay charges against three people involved with slaughtering a sheep on Clifton beach as part of a protest last week<\/a><\/strong>. The city said that the act was against the city&#8217;s by-laws, while the SPCA will be pursuing charges of animal cruelty. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/331990\/gauteng-dam-levels-drop-as-heatwave-continues\">Gauteng&#8217;s dam levels have continued to drop in the wake of an extended heatwave in the region.<\/a> <\/strong>While the province has also had its share of thunderstorms in the evenings, rainfall patterns are lower than they should be &#8211; while water usage has been up due to the heat. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed against a weaker dollar in light year-end trade on Friday, helped by data that showed the country swung into a trade surplus in November. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was trading at R14.43 to the dollar, R18.31 to the pound and R16.49 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January&#8217;s massive petrol price drop won&#8217;t take the edge off what is expected to be a rough ride in 2019; matric results will be out on 4 January; Clifton beach protesters to be charged; and warnings over Gauteng&#8217;s dam levels, which are lower due tot he heatwave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-291804","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\/291804","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=291804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291806,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291804\/revisions\/291806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}