{"id":302590,"date":"2019-03-01T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=302590"},"modified":"2019-03-01T06:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:30:57","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/302590\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-504\/","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>Eskom has warned that the risk of load shedding being implemented until the end of the weekend remains high, while <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/03\/01\/cabinet-says-plan-in-place-to-keep-the-lights-on\">Cabinet assures that it has a plan of action to keep the lights on over the long term<\/a><\/strong>. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bhekisisa.org\/article\/2019-03-01-00-private-healthcare-corruption-losing-more-than-r22-billion-a-year-to-fraud-waste\">False claims are costing South Africa&#8217;s private healthcare system R22 billion a year<\/a><\/strong> (15% of all claims), the Council for Medical Schemes says &#8211; and warns that if you&#8217;re busted, you could face more than just being booted from your medical aid. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ANC head of elections Fikile Mbalula has lauded testimony from former finance minister Trevor Manuel, in which he said that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2019-02-28-fikile-mbalula-the-truth-about-my-promotion-shall-set-us-free\/\">Mbalula was approached by the Guptas on his appointment as sports minister<\/a><\/strong>. Mbalula said he would offer his own testimony to the state capture commission, corroborating Manuel&#8217;s input. TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/expect-gridlocks-johannesburg-roads\">Motorists in Johannesburg should brace for higher traffic and longer drive times as the next phase of the M2 revamp kicks off<\/a><\/strong>. Traffic officials have warned that motorists should plan for at least an hour more in traffic, particularly around the Crown interchange. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The South African rand fell on Thursday as fading hopes for a US-China trade deal and an unsatisfactory end to the US-North Korea summit subdued demand for emerging market currencies. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was at R14.08 to the dollar, R18.68 to the pound and R16.02 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom warns of high load shedding risk this weekend; insurance fraud costs private healthcare billions; Mbalula wants his say at the state capture commission; and Joburg drivers should prepare for traffic hell as the M2 revamp kicks off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,11121],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-302590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302590","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=302590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302592,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302590\/revisions\/302592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}