{"id":292638,"date":"2019-01-09T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T05:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=292638"},"modified":"2019-01-09T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T05:36:26","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/292638\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-467\/","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\/09\/zuma-won-t-be-sidelined-ramaphosa-assures-anc-supporters\">President Ramaphosa says that former president Jacob Zuma won&#8217;t be sidelined in the campaigning for the 2019 elections<\/a><\/strong>, and that he will be used for various tasks in the party. Zuma enjoys strong support in KwaZulu Natal, where Ramaphosa has been met with a muted welcome. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/woolworths-meet-woman-accusing-it-stealing-her-idea\">Woolworths has been accused of stealing another idea from an entrepreneur.<\/a><\/strong> Baby carrier maker\u00a0Shannon McLaughlin caught social media attention this week after claiming that Woolworths stole her designs. Woolworths has agreed to meet with McLaughlin today. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-01-08\/south-africa-finds-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-cattle-in-limpopo\">The agriculture department has warned that foot and mouth disease has been found in Limpopo<\/a><\/strong>, with the areas affected put into quarantine. Foot and mouth is a highly contagious viral disease which affects cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and other cloven-hoofed animals, but does not affect humans. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/politics\/2019-01-08-jessie-duarte-dismisses-irr-poll-as-being-enemy-tactics\/\">The ANC has dismissed elections polls showing it will get over 60% of the vote, calling it &#8216;enemy tactics&#8217;,<\/a><\/strong> implying that it will lull the electorate into a sense of security and breed complacency among voters. ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said ANC voters should mobilise and show up in numbers on voting day. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The South African rand weakened on Tuesday, eating into strong gains since the start of the year as the dollar recovered following a recent slump. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday, the rand was trading at R13.93 to the dollar, R17.76 to the pound and R15.97 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuma won&#8217;t be sidelined in the ANC election campaign; Woolworths to meet with entrepreneur who accused it of stealing her idea; foot and mouth disease has been discovered in Limpopo; and the ANC tells voters to ignore election polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-292638","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\/292638","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=292638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292650,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292638\/revisions\/292650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}