{"id":298788,"date":"2019-02-12T06:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T04:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=298788"},"modified":"2019-02-12T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T04:38:19","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/298788\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-491\/","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\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1095174829249101830\">Eskom will implement Stage 3 load shedding today from 08h00 to 22h00<\/a><\/strong>. While generating capacity has returned to planned levels, the group said that emergency diesel reserves are low. [Eskom]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-02-11-eskom-gordhan-in-six-hour-meeting-as-load-shedding-grips-sa\/\">Eskom has held late night emergency meetings over its lack of power capacity<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; thanks in part to the failure of the Medupi and Kusile power stations to provide reliable power to the group&#8217;s generating capacity. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/337504\/woolworths-copied-our-product-ideas-superlatte-happy-earth-people\">Woolworths has again been accused of stealing ideas and ripping off local products with very similar product offerings.<\/a> <\/strong>After the Frankie&#8217;s soft drinks and the uBaba baby carrier, the makers of Superlatte and a chickpea and lentil pasta are accusing Woolies of the same. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-02-11-travel-records-contradict-vytjie-mentors-testimony\">Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor\u2019s testimony before the Zondo state capture commission has been thrown into doubt,<\/a><\/strong> after her account of travel times and days does not match up with records. She also failed to identify the correct people she said she encountered. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand fell to its weakest in almost three weeks on Monday as state electricity firm Eskom stepped up controlled power cuts because of a shortage of generating capacity.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Tuesday the rand was at R13.79 to the dollar, R17.73 to the pound and R15.55 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 3 load shedding today; Eskom in emergency meetings with government; Woolworths accused of stealing ideas yet again; and Mentor&#8217;s state capture testimony raises doubts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":79087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-298788","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\/298788","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=298788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298792,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298788\/revisions\/298792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}