{"id":296306,"date":"2019-01-31T06:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T04:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=296306"},"modified":"2019-01-31T06:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T04:37:54","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-483","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/296306\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-483\/","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 South African mining sector has warned of a jobs bloodbath should Eskom be granted a 15% tariff hike every year for the next three years.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/companies\/15-eskom-tariff-hike-could-wipe-out-150-000-mining-jobs-19053276\">The Minerals Council South Africa has warned that the industry could lose 150,000 jobs if Nersa gives the power utility the go-ahead<\/a><\/strong>. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-01-30-third-bosasa-whistle-blower-spills-beans-on-gillingham-wakeford-mokonyane-and-the-anc\/\">A third former Bosasa boss has now spilled the beans on officials&#8217; ties to the group through bribery and corruption.<\/a><\/strong> Former senior exec\u00a0Frans Vorster joined former CFO Andries van Tonder , and former COO Angelo Agrizzi in testifying how the group bribed government officials with cars, houses and cash money. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL5N1ZU2RK\">Deputy minister of finance and chairman of the PIC, Mondli Gungubele, says he has done nothing wrong<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; after a whistleblower made new corruption allegations at the pension fund. The PIC is being probed over a R4.3 billion investment into Iqbal Surve&#8217;s AYO Technologies. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vodacom is reportedly ready to pay the man who initiated buzz around the Please Call Me at the group R49 million, as per a Constitutional Court order &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/336039\/protestors-demand-r70bn-a-third-of-its-entire-market-cap-from-vodacom-for-please-call-me-inventor\">but protesters want to shut the company down until it forks over R70 billion. <\/a><\/strong>[702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand steadied against the dollar on Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve\u2019s policy decision and US-China trade talks later in the day. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was trading at R13.33 to the dollar, R17.50 to the pound and R15.34 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minerals Council says 150,000 jobs are on the line if Eskom is allowed to push ahead with a 15% tariff hike; a third Bosasa boss testified of government bribes and corruption; deputy finance minister says he is innocent in the PIC probe; and protesters threaten to shut down Vodacom today over the Please Call Me saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":75162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-296306","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\/296306","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=296306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296308,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296306\/revisions\/296308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}