{"id":293900,"date":"2019-01-17T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T05:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=293900"},"modified":"2019-01-17T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T05:45:00","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/293900\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-473\/","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:\/\/citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/crime\/2064837\/bosasa-ceo-could-make-people-disappear-and-5-other-shocking-state-capture-allegations\/\">A former executive at\u00a0facilities management company Bosasa has admitted to spending up to R7 million a month bribing officials to secure tenders.<\/a><\/strong> The group&#8217;s former COO,\u00a0Angelo Agrizzi also told the state capture commission that former SAA chair and Zuma ally, Dudu Myeni, shared confidential NPA information with the group. [Citizen]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2019-01-16-anc-slams-das-anc-is-killing-sa-billboard-as-slanderous\/\">The DA has unveiled a new election billboard with the claim that &#8220;The ANC is killing us&#8221;.<\/a><\/strong> The ANC has called the board slanderous, and in violation of the electoral code. The DA said the ANC destroyed R700 billion through corruption, and was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Our_DA\/status\/1085493771167514624\">directly responsible for the Life Esidimeni, pit toilet, and Marikana deaths<\/a><\/strong>. [Times Live]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/sharp-rise-in-number-of-south-africans-leaving-the-country-20190117\">South Africa is experiencing a sharp rise in the number of citizens leaving for good.<\/a><\/strong> Data from South Africa&#8217;s biggest receiver countries show a spike in South African immigrants entering their borders, with experts saying close to 100,000 citizens have left the country since 2006 &#8211; most in the 25 to 44 age range. [City Press]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/news\/economy\/mpc-decision-3-things-to-watch\/\">The Reserve Bank&#8217;s Monetary Policy Commission will announce its rates decision today at 15h00, with most analysts expecting a hold on rates.<\/a><\/strong> SARB governor\u00a0Lesetja Kganyago&#8217;s comments around the decisions will give a better indication of where the committee sits on South Africa&#8217;s future. [Moneyweb]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand and local stocks strengthened on Wednesday as retail sales rose more than expected, helping ease concerns over dismal mining data a day earlier.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Thursday the rand was trading at R13.73 to the dollar, R17.67 to the pound and R15.63 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC has slammed the DA&#8217;s new election poster; former Bosasa COO has admitted to spending millions of rands a month bribing officials; South Africa is seeing a sharp rise in emigration; and the SARB MPC will announce a rates decision at 15h00 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":132491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-293900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293900","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=293900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293916,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293900\/revisions\/293916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}