{"id":297824,"date":"2019-02-07T06:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=297824"},"modified":"2019-02-07T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:45:17","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-488","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/297824\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-488\/","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>President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to deliver his state of the nation address this evening. E<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/Business\/sona-is-d-day-for-eskom-economy-20190206\">xpectations for the speech are varied, with many looking for action on Eskom, corruption, unemployment and ways to grow economy.<\/a><\/strong> The speech takes place at 19h00. [City Press]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-02-06-npa-admits-to-political-interference-in-prosecutorial-decisions\">The NPA has admitted that there has been political interference in its work<\/a><\/strong>, which has led to delays. It has been particularly evidence in cases dealing witjh apartheid-era crimes. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Hawks have moved to arrest former Bosasa COO turned whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi on charges of corruption &#8211;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2019-02-07-law-expert-warns-agrizzis-arrest-could-scare-off-witnesses\/\"> though legal experts warn that this could scare away other people complicit in these kinds of crimes<\/a><\/strong> who may have wanted to come forward with information. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL5N201778\">Eskom employees are pushing back against plans to split the company, which could lead to job losses<\/a><\/strong>. Employees picketed outside the group&#8217;s HQ. Unions have expressed concern over plans to split the company. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand fell on Wednesday, in line with broad weakness in emerging market currencies, as the dollar settled near a two-week high. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was at R13.55 to the dollar, R17.52 to the pound and R15.39 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa will deliver his state of the nation address tonight at 19h00; the NPA admits that there&#8217;s been political interference it its work; arresting Agrizzi could scare away other whistleblowers, legal experts say; and Eskom employees push back against split plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":290098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-297824","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\/297824","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=297824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297826,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297824\/revisions\/297826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}