{"id":292042,"date":"2019-01-03T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=292042"},"modified":"2019-01-03T07:45:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T05:45:59","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/292042\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-463\/","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>South Africa&#8217;s IEB matrics achieved a 98.82% pass rate in the 2018 exams. NSC matric results will be published on Friday, 4 January &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/291888\/where-to-get-your-2018-matric-results\/\">you can check your exam results through several channels, listed here<\/a><\/strong>. [BusinessTech]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/da-plans-mute-zuma-album\">The DA hopes to dash Jacob Zuma&#8217;s dreams of becoming a recording artist, promising to fight &#8216;tooth and nail&#8217; against the eThekwini municipality<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s bid to record the former president&#8217;s favourite struggle songs, as sung by him. The opposition party said that it was &#8220;blatant patronage&#8221; and wouldn&#8217;t let taxpayer money be wasted. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/290572-rain-running-esim-devices-full-support-coming-soon.html\">Telco operator Rain is successfully testing eSIM technology on its network<\/a><\/strong>, with plans to commercialise the product in 2019. The tech gives support for a physical SIM card and the inclusion of an eSIM \u2013 an embedded SIM card which is built into the device. [MyBroadband]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-01-02-probe-into-sas-private-healthcare-sector-cost-r197m\/\">The Competition Commission&#8217;s inquiry into private healthcare cost almost R200 million to do,<\/a><\/strong> with the panel having to tap into a host of analysts and experts to publish its final report. The commission was launched in 2013 and delivered its final report in 2018. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened more than 1% on Wednesday as weak Chinese manufacturing data offset hopes that a trade war between China and the United States was ending.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Thursday the rand was at R14.53 to the dollar, R18.24 to the pound and R16.52 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IEB matric results are out; the DA will fight to stop the Zuma record deal from going through; Rain is testing eSIM technology on its network; and the Competition Commission spent almost R200 million investigating private healthcare in SA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":131872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-292042","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\/292042","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=292042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292058,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292042\/revisions\/292058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}