{"id":305702,"date":"2019-03-18T06:31:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=305702"},"modified":"2019-03-18T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T05:34:15","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/305702\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-515\/","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\/status\/1107324575883370497\">South Africans should prepare themselves for severe load shedding this week as Eskom continues to struggle with capacity.<\/a><\/strong> Stage 4 load shedding will take place on Monday, with the same levels expected to continue to Wednesday. Load shedding is also expected to continue overnight. [Eskom]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>New election polls suggest that Gauteng will be the battleground to watch for the ANC, which will determine if the party will be able to achieve above 60% in the national vote. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/Columnists\/AdriaanBasson\/battleground-gauteng-will-push-anc-above-or-below-60-20190318\">The party is currently polling around 55%, with the DA at 22% and the EFF at 11%.<\/a><\/strong> [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The ANC won&#8217;t exclude from its lists politicians who have been accused of corruption &#8211; but secretary general Ace Magashule has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-03-17-implicated-in-corruption-behaved-unethically-lied-under-oath-we-humbly-ask-you-to-please-withdraw-from-the-ancs-electoral-list\/\">asked nicely if those members of the party could withdraw their names themselves<\/a><\/strong>. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The recent terrorist activity in New Zealand has brought South Africa&#8217;s gun control laws to the fore, with experts noting that, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/341456\/gun-law\">while the country&#8217;s gun laws are tight, corruption and the trade of illegal firearms severely undermines them<\/a><\/strong>. Statistically, South Africa has the equivalent of a mass shooting every day. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s firmed on Friday as demand for emerging market currencies lifted on reports that China and the United States had made more progress in their trade talks. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R14.41 to the dollar, R19.16 to the pound and R16.33 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 4 load shedding today and likely up to Wednesday; Gauteng will be the battleground to watch in the 2019 elections; the ANC SG kindly asks implicated members to withdraw from election lists; and are SA gun laws enough to protect us from mass shootings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":72374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-305702","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\/305702","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=305702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305704,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305702\/revisions\/305704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}