{"id":293010,"date":"2019-01-11T07:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T05:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=293010"},"modified":"2019-01-11T07:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T05:43:44","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/293010\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-469\/","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=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/333442\/fnb-expects-real-home-prices-to-fall-yet-again-in-2019\">Property experts\u00a0expect home prices to rise by 3.7% in 2019, which, with current inflation at 5.2%, represents a real decline of 1.5%<\/a><\/strong>. With a similar economic performance expected in 2019 as in 2018, buyers might be happier with the slowdown &#8211; but the experts warned that buying to let might be tricky, with renters under pressure. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/govt-working-hard-avoid-another-listeriosis-outbreak-motsoaledi\">The health department is working to prevent another listeriosis outbreak in South Africa,<\/a><\/strong> after the 2017 crisis claimed the lives of almost 200 people. A 2018 study found that the threat of listeriosis still exists. According to the department, protocols have been tightened and new ones developed for doctors to treat the disease. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-chromes-built-in-ad-blocker-to-roll-out-worldwide-on-july-9\/\">Google says it will expand its ad-blocking features to the rest of the world<\/a><\/strong>, after launching them in the US and Canada last year. The features will allow Chrome users to block pop-up adverts, videos and auto-playing sound. The features will be rolled out in July 2019. [ZDNet]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/africaTech\/idAFL8N1ZA6BC\">Scandal hit Steinhoff&#8217;s restructuring plan is being challenged by one of its creditors &#8211; which has given no reasons for the challenge<\/a><\/strong>. The group is in the middle of trying to clean up its books after a major accounting fraud scandal broke in 2017. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand held steady on Thursday, as disappointing economic data were offset by market optimism over US-China trade tensions. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was at R13.82 to the dollar, R17.65 to the pound and R15.94 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property prices are likely to decline in 2019, in real terms; the health department is working to make sure another listeriosis outbreak doesn&#8217;t happen again; Google to rollout new adblocking features worldwide; and Steinhoff&#8217;s restructuring plan hits a snag with one of its creditors not happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,12755],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-293010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-property","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293010","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=293010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293020,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293010\/revisions\/293020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}