{"id":301826,"date":"2019-02-26T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T04:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=301826"},"modified":"2019-02-26T06:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T04:37:38","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/301826\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-501\/","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:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/297374-vodacom-will-charge-you-to-roll-over-mobile-data.html\">Vodacom has sparked anger among its users with new data rules<\/a><\/strong> which will reportedly see the group charging as much as R50 for customers to roll over 1GB of data for 7 days. The new charges are part of new data rules that are hitting the country from 1 March. [MyBroadband]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Testimony before the state capture commission has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/mabuza-molefe-koko-could-shed-light-state-capture-eskom\">pointed the finger to former Eskom executives as the next step to finding out the extent of state capture<\/a> <\/strong>at the state power utility. Several former execs have been implicated, with billions said to have been looted. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2019-02-26-pic-directors-ordered-to-recoup-r43bn-from-ayo\/\">The PIC has been ordered to recover the R4.3 billion it invested into Ayo Technology Solutions<\/a><\/strong>, with claims that directors knowingly caused harm to the country&#8217;s largest asset manager. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s 5G capabilities are expected to get a huge boost through a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-02-25\/helios-to-build-1-000-towers-in-south-africa-5g-networks-push\">push by Helios Towers to build over 1,000 new telecoms towers in the country.<\/a><\/strong> The group is also looking to acquire some of the 30,000 towers in SA, which are managed by telco groups like MTN and Vodacom. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand rose on Monday, holding onto its post-budget gains, after US President Donald Trump extended a deadline for China and the United States to reach a trade agreement. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R13.84 to the dollar, R18.19 to the pound and R15.73 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom customers are angry about the group&#8217;s new data plans; it&#8217;s Eskom&#8217;s turn before the state capture commission; the PIC has reportedly been ordered to recover the R4.3 billion it put into Ayo; and 5G gets a boost in SA thanks to new towers coming our way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":296412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,9878],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-301826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-technology","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301826","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=301826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301828,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301826\/revisions\/301828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}