{"id":292342,"date":"2019-01-07T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=292342"},"modified":"2019-01-07T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:39:51","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-465","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/292342\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-465\/","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.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/politics\/2019-01-06-cyril-ramaphosa-to-tackle-divisive-jacob-zuma\/\">President Cyril Ramaphosa is setting up a meeting with former president Jacob Zuma over his recent divisive comments about land reform, which breaks away from ANC policy<\/a><\/strong>. Zuma called for the nationalisation of land in South Africa. Ramaphosa also wants to discuss the state capture case, reports say. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/eskom-wants-higher-tariffs\">Eskom wants to get\u00a0R762 billion bak from customers, and is looking for a 15% increase in tariffs each year for 3 years.<\/a><\/strong> Energy regulator Nersa will be launching public hearings on the matter on 14 January, starting in Cape Town and moving across the country. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2019-01-06-if-were-all-such-ace-drivers-why-are-our-roads-so-deadly\/\">The vast majority of South African drivers think they are excellent drivers &#8211; but SA roads remain some of the most dangerous.<\/a><\/strong> In the first two weeks of the festive season, 787 people died on the roads and more than 2,800 were arrested for speeding, drinking and driving, and other traffic offences. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>With <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/291892\/32-of-the-most-expensive-and-exclusive-schools-in-south-africa\/\">school fees increasing at above-inflation rates,<\/a><\/strong> parents will find some relief in school uniforms &#8211; where <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/capetimes\/news\/no-increase-in-school-uniform-prices-18704469\">increases have been contained by some retailers in the new year<\/a><\/strong>. Woolworths has kept uniform prices almost the same as 2018, as has Pep stores. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed to a two-week best on Friday as emerging markets were boosted by increased expectations of the US central bank cutting lending rates this year.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Monday the rand was at R13.91 to the dollar, R17.73 to the pound and R15.90 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa to meet with Zuma over divisive land comments; Eskom wants to hike tariffs to get R762 billion back from customers; South Africans think they&#8217;re great drivers &#8211; but SA roads remain deadly; and retailers are keeping school uniform prices stable for another year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":103709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-292342","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\/292342","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=292342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292348,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292342\/revisions\/292348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}