{"id":306684,"date":"2019-03-25T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=306684"},"modified":"2019-03-25T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:50:06","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-519","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/306684\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-519\/","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\/1109869635682357254\">Eskom says that it does not expect to implement load shedding this week,<\/a><\/strong> but warned that it could return at any time, as the system remains vulnerable. Power performance and water reserves have improved at its stations, it said. [Eskom]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Economists currently hold a grim outlook for South Africa, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/recession-and-downgrade-economists-spell-out-risks-that-come-with-load-shedding-20190320\">with the concerns over the country hitting another technical recession, and facing a downgrade<\/a><\/strong> from ratings agency Moody&#8217;s which will put the country into full junk. [Fin24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2019-03-25-angelo-agrizzi-set-to-give-more-explosive-testimony-at-zondo-commission\/\">Former Bosasa executive Angelo Agrizzi says he will continue to give testimony before the state capture commission<\/a><\/strong>, despite being arrested and facing charged. Agrizzi has delivered some of the most explosive revelations at the commission thus far. [BusinessLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-03-25-us-cuts-r5bn-off-funding-for-sas-suboptimal-hiv-scheme\/\">The US will reportedly cut South Africa&#8217;s HIV treatment funding by R5 billion,<\/a> <\/strong>saying the country\u2019s fight against Aids is \u201cgrossly suboptimal\u201d. South Africa receives around R10 billion in aid from the US for the fight against HIV. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand fell on Friday after disappointing economic data from the euro zone added to concerns of a slowdown in global growth and drove investors away from riskier assets. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R14.53 to the dollar, R19.17 to the pound and R16.42 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No load shedding expected this week; economists are worried about another recession and a ratings downgrade; Agrizzi says he will continue testifying, despite arrest; and the US has reportedly cut SA&#8217;s HIV treatment funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-306684","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\/306684","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=306684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306686,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306684\/revisions\/306686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}