{"id":303206,"date":"2019-03-05T06:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=303206"},"modified":"2019-03-05T06:48:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:48:01","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/303206\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-506\/","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>A massive increase in petrol and diesel prices hitting tomorrow will likely ripple through the economy, and impact prices in other places. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/economy\/surge-in-fuel-prices-likely-to-put-pressure-on-inflation-19637223\">The IRR said that consumers should prepare themselves for pressure on inflation, which could impact rates.<\/a> <\/strong>[IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While churches and religious groups in South Africa enjoy tax benefits, SARS says <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/sars-swoops-churches-ensure-compliance\">leaders who earn an income from churches still need to pay the right taxes.<\/a><\/strong> The revenue service intends to crack down on these people, who may be dodging their tax responsibilities. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPE_ZA\/status\/1102617654559420416\">Eskom has announced the team of experts that will try and help save the company from crisis<\/a><\/strong>. The panel includes 11 experts, including academic, engineering and power systems professionals. [Eskom]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa has the second highest number of departments and ministers in the world &#8211; and all indicators in a coming report from the department of Public Service and Administration <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/dlodlo-speaks-bloated-cabinet-size\">point to a cutting of departments coming our way<\/a><\/strong>. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand ended firmer on Monday, boosted by growing hopes of a trade deal between the US and China, but trading was cautious ahead of crucial local and offshore data. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R14.21 to the dollar, R18.70 to the pound and R16.10 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect tomorrow&#8217;s massive petrol price hike to ripple through the economy; SARS targets church leaders for tax; Eskom announces the 11 experts who will try and turn things around; and a leaner cabinet is on the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":74874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-303206","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\/303206","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=303206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303210,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303206\/revisions\/303210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}