{"id":303590,"date":"2019-03-06T06:44:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=303590"},"modified":"2019-03-06T06:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:44:03","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/303590\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-507\/","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\">Eskom has warned that the risk of load shedding remains high this week<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; but has assured that it will only implement it if absolutely necessary.There is pressure on . the grid due to loss of generating units. [Eskom]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The ANC and other opposition parties rejected the EFF&#8217;s bid to rename Cape Town International Airport after Winnie Mandela. It was dismissed for being a cheap way to score political points &#8211; while <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2019-03-05-anc-shoots-down-eff-plan-to-rename-cape-town-airport-after-mama-winnie\/\">it was pointed out to the EFF that parliament had nothing to do with renaming things.<\/a><\/strong> [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Testimony at the state capture commission revealed how <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-03-05-zondo-commission-eskom-fooled-the-system-to-pay-the-guptas\">Eskom lied and cheated its own procurement processes to pay a Gupta company R659 million<\/a><\/strong> in advance for coal it had not yet delivered. The orders came straight from the top, from former CFO Anoj Singh. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/340089\/nedbank-is-taking-customers-from-other-banks\">Nedbank says that it is taking customers from other banks,<\/a><\/strong> having grown its customer base by 7%, and increasing its market share to 13%. The bank said that groeth is the biggest challenge in the country, but it expects South Africa to have a better year than last year &#8211; only barely. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed on Tuesday after data showing an economic recovery from a recession continued in the fourth quarter of last year, albeit at a slower rate. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday the rand was at R14.19 to the dollar, R18.65 to the pound and R16.04 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risk of load shedding is high this week; politicians shoot down bid to rename Cape Town&#8217;s airport; Eskom lied and cheated to make sure that the Guptas got R659 million; and Nedbank says it&#8217;s eating other banks&#8217; lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":90550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-303590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303590","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=303590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303592,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303590\/revisions\/303592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}