{"id":292508,"date":"2019-01-08T08:27:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T06:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=292508"},"modified":"2019-01-08T08:27:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T06:27:52","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-466","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/292508\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-466\/","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\/2019\/01\/08\/ramaphosa-takes-swipe-at-zuma-s-presidency-corruption\">President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken a swipe at the Zuma government, saying that the country has been saved from a downward spiral of corruption.<\/a><\/strong> Ramaphosa is on the campaign trail ahead of the 2019 elections. He said the last 9 years were lost to corruption. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/anc-wants-clean-funding-20190108\">The ANC&#8217;s head of election, Fikile Mbalula said that the party has become sensitive to receiving funding from &#8220;dubious individuals&#8221; and is pursuing what it calls &#8216;clean funding&#8217; for the 2019 elections<\/a><\/strong>. The party is expected to launch its 2019 election manifesto this Saturday. [City Press]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/disgruntled-unisa-students-shutdown-tshwane-campus\">Unisa has been forced to shut down its Sunnyside campus in Tshwane due to student protests.<\/a><\/strong> Students want to meet management over academic programmes and financial aids, but failed to get an audience. Unisa encourages students to register online. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.co.za\/woolworths-staff-arent-allowed-to-handle-your-bank-card-heres-why-2019-1\">Woolworths staff have been banned from handling shoppers&#8217; bank cards at till points as a new security measure to prevent fraud<\/a><\/strong>. The retail group has rolled out new point-of-sale devices, and encourages shoppers to handle their own cards when paying. [BI]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The South African rand strengthened against the dollar on Monday, adding to strong gains last week as dovish comments by the Federal Reserve chair hurt the US currency. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R13.94 to the dollar, R17.79 to the pound and R15.95 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa takes a not-so-veiled swipe at Zuma; the ANC wants &#8216;clean&#8217; funding for the elections; a Unisa campus has been shut down because of student protests; and Woolies doesn&#8217;t want to touch your bank cards anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":257225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-292508","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\/292508","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=292508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292528,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292508\/revisions\/292528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}