{"id":304462,"date":"2019-03-11T06:54:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T04:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=304462"},"modified":"2019-03-11T10:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T08:19:35","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/304462\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-510\/","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:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-03-10-zuma-used-spooks-to-target-ramaphosa-report\">A new report details how former president Jacob Zuma used the State Security Agency to spy on president Cyril Ramaphos<\/a><\/strong>a, and other groups with an anti-Zuma stance. The report noted that many of these instances were illegal and unconstitutional. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/news\/companies-and-deals\/sa-post-office-turnaround-staked-on-e-commerce-and-drone-deliveries\/\">The SA Post Office wants to move past its outdated methods of delivery and is considering new technologies such as drones.<\/a><\/strong> The group acknowledged that it has fallen behind the times, and lost its position to courier companies. [Moneyweb]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-09\/african-pharma-tycoon-saad-falls-from-grace-as-aspen-plunges\">Aspen Pharmacare&#8217;s share prices plunged over 50% as investors pull out of the group which is facing mounting debt.<\/a><\/strong> Investors are also concerned the business is panic-selling core items, such as the formula business. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/no-south-africans-reported-crashed-ethiopian-plane\">No South Africans were reported to be on the Ethiopian Boeing 737 that crashed with 157 passengers on board on Sunday<\/a><\/strong>. The Nairobi-bound plane crashed shortly after taking off, killing all on board. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed on Friday, recovering from a nine-week low after sluggish US employment data pushed the dollar lower and saw demand for emerging markets return. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R14.43 to the dollar, R18.72 to the pound and R16.21 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New report details how Zuma spied; SA Post Office looks to new tech and drones to lift its game; Aspen&#8217;s shares continue to tank amid investor worries; and no South Africans reported among the Ethiopian plan crash victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":85958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-304462","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\/304462","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=304462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304554,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304462\/revisions\/304554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}