{"id":298424,"date":"2019-02-11T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=298424"},"modified":"2019-02-11T06:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:34:59","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-490","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/298424\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-490\/","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:\/\/twitter.com\/KhuluPhasiwe\/status\/1094528736832221184\">Load shedding is back, after an almost two month-long absence.<\/a><\/strong> Eskom announced surprise state 2 load shedding on Sunday due to a loss of capacity, with the group saying that chances were high that the same would have to be implemented on Monday. [Eskom]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/its-war-over-eskom-privatisation-plans\/\">A major battle is looming over plans to unbundle Eskom, with unions rejecting the idea, and analysts saying that it does not address the real problem<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; which is said to be out of control coal and diesel costs and declining electricity sales. Numsa is planning strike action against the proposal. [Moneyweb]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Weekend reports that president <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-02-11-cutting-numbers-of-provinces-and-government-departments-a-good-but-wildly-difficult-idea\/\">Cyril Ramaphosa wants to cut his cabinet and possibly even reduce the number of provinces<\/a><\/strong> is likely to be met with fierce political opposition, despite the good it will do the country. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/politics\/2019-02-10-forecasts-of-da-vote-decline-a-myth-says-mmusi-maimane\/\">DA leader Mmusi Maimane says that the party&#8217;s internal polling shows that it will do better than the 22% of the vote it achieved in 2014<\/a><\/strong>, and that Ipsos polls saying it will get only 14% are wrong. He said that Ipsos has been consistently wrong in the past. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132433\/south-africa-2016-election-results-the-predictions-vs-the-outcome\/\">2016&#8217;s Ipsos polls were fairly accurate, however<\/a><\/strong>. [Business Day, BusinessTech]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand recovered on Friday, tracking peers like the Turkish lira and Russian rouble as the dollar weakened and investors looked to profit on the greenback\u2019s recent rally. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R13.61 to the dollar, R17.60 to the pound and R15.41 to the euro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Load shedding is back, with power cuts expected on Monday; a battle looms over plans to unbundle Eskom; Ramaphosa&#8217;s plans to cut cabinet and possibly provinces won&#8217;t be easy; and the DA says Ipsos polling is wrong &#8211; it&#8217;s going to get more votes than in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":75316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-298424","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\/298424","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=298424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298428,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298424\/revisions\/298428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}