{"id":294336,"date":"2019-01-21T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=294336"},"modified":"2019-01-21T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:54:12","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/294336\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-475\/","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:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2019-01-20-ace-magashules-reserve-bank-edit-puts-anc-in-spin\/\">The nationalisation of the Reserve Bank was reportedly snuck into the ANC election manifesto by party secretary general Ace Magashule and his supporters<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; against the wishes of president Cyril Ramaphosa and his team. The issue has revealed the Zuma-era divisions still persist within the party, while Ramaphosa has had to do damage control on the topic. [Times Live]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/01\/21\/hawks-and-npa-looking-into-agrizzi-chilly-revelations\">The Hawks and the NPA have assigned teams to investigate the explosive claims made by former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi at the state capture commission last week<\/a><\/strong>. Agrizzi claimed that he was involved with rampant bribery and corruption, implicating people in government and within the ANC. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2019-01-21-broke-sabc-board-suspends-job-cuts\/\">The SABC has suspended its retrenchment process due to pressure from government and unions.<\/a> <\/strong>The public broadcaster is in deep financial trouble and desperately needs to cut costs. It spends over R3 billion a year on 3,000 staff. The group wanted to cut 1,000 permanent and 1,200 freelance positions. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/334643\/parliament-to-amend-the-minimum-wage-act\">The loophole in the National Minimum Wage Bill will be closed up, as parliament moved to amend it.<\/a><\/strong> The bill which was implemented at the start of the year, incorrectly back-dated payment of the minimum wage to May 2017, which opened employers up to possible action from workers. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand was weaker on Friday, a day after the central bank adopted a less hawkish tone at its monetary policy meeting. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was trading at R13.85 to the dollar, R17.82 to the pound and R15.75 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Magashule vs Ramaphosa over the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank; the Hawks and NPA assign teams to investigate bribery and corruption claims from Bosasa; the SABC suspends its retrenchment processes due to pressure from government; and the National Minimum Wage Bill loophole will be amended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":144959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-294336","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\/294336","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=294336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294356,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294336\/revisions\/294356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}