{"id":292852,"date":"2019-01-10T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T05:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=292852"},"modified":"2019-01-10T07:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T05:37:54","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/292852\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-468\/","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>The ANC is on the campaign trail ahead of its manifesto launch on 12 January, with president Cyril Ramaphosa <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/01\/10\/ramaphosa-anc-is-now-renewing-itself\">promising a &#8216;renewed&#8217; party that will deal with those implicated in state capture decisively<\/a><\/strong>. Meanwhile, Ramaphosa is also campaigning <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/01\/09\/zuma-won-t-be-sidelined-ramaphosa-assures-anc-supporters\">with Jacob Zuma<\/a><\/strong>, the man at the centre of state capture, as a key player. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s education standards are a mess, education economist Nic Spaull has pointed out, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/333301\/8-out-of-10-grade-4s-can-t-read-how-will-they-find-jobs-one-day-they-won-t\">with only 2 in every 10 grade 4 pupils being able to read for meaning, and less than half of all grade 5 students being able to do basic maths<\/a><\/strong>. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/mzwanele-manyi-abandons-tired-anc-for-atm-20190109\">After failing to salvage the Guptas&#8217; scuttled media empire, Mzwanele Manyi is pinning his hopes on a new political movement, abandoning the ANC for the\u00a0African Transformation Movement<\/a><\/strong> (ATM) as one of the party\u2019s national executive members. Manyi said that the ANC was old, fatigued and captured. [City Press]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/companies\/retail-and-consumer\/2019-01-10-red-faced-woolworths-apologises-and-pulls-similar-baby-carrier\/\">Woolworths has apologised for producing and selling a baby carryier that is &#8220;strikingly similar&#8221; to one already being sold by an entrepreneur in South Africa<\/a><\/strong>. The group has pulled the item from its stores, and has committed to doing a better job with its sourcing. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand and stocks gained on Wednesday, in line with other emerging markets as hopes the United States and China could reach a trade deal boosted risk sentiment. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was trading at R13.83 to the dollar, R17.67 to the pound and R15.98 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa promises a renewed ANC that&#8217;s tough on state capture; only 2 out of 10 grade 4 pupils in South Africa can read; former Gupta media head Mzwanele Manyi heads back into politics &#8211; dropping the ANC for a new party; and Woolworths says sorry and pulls baby carrier product over plagiarism claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":292854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-292852","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\/292852","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=292852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292856,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292852\/revisions\/292856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}