{"id":307232,"date":"2019-03-27T07:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=307232"},"modified":"2019-03-27T07:28:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T05:28:03","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/307232\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-521\/","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>As markets await Moody&#8217;s review this Friday, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/03\/26\/rating-agencies-don-t-want-to-upset-ramaphosa-s-path-analyst\">some analysts believe that South Africa should have been downgraded a long time ago<\/a><\/strong>, and that we have been running on borrowed time. However, despite the negative outlook, analysts are hopeful of the country&#8217;s prospects &#8211; as long as the ANC&#8217;s party politics don&#8217;t disrupt. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Eskom is not load shedding the week, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/energy-minister-concedes-eskom-faces-serious-capacity-challenges\">but the power utility and the department of energy have stressed that the power crisis is still ongoing and rolling blackouts cannot be ruled out<\/a><\/strong>. The DoE warned that capacity issues persist, which Eskom said its winter prognosis will come in due course. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At least 20% of the political leaders contesting the 2019 elections have either had <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-03-27-revealed-at-least-20-percent-of-party-leaders-have-a-shady-past\/\">criminal charges laid against them, or court action launched against them in some form<\/a><\/strong>, according to research done by the Daily Maverick. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The IEC has redesigned the ballots for the 2019 elections<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-03-27-iec-changes-ballot-paper-to-prevent-people-mistakenly-voting-for-the-wrong-party\/\"> to make it easier for voters to vote for their chosen party, and not get confused by similar names or colours.<\/a> <\/strong>In the previous election, the ANC, AIC and APC were all next to each other, bearing similar party colours. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand slipped on Tuesday, surrendering the previous session\u2019s gains as the dollar rebounded from a sell-off triggered by fears the United States economy is heading for recession. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday, the rand was at R14.45 to the dollar, R19.06 to the pound and R16.27 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s been running on borrowed time; Eskom&#8217;s capacity issues are ongoing, and load shedding can&#8217;t be ruled out; 1 in 5 party leaders contesting the 2019 elections have claims of wrongdoing against them; and the IEC has changed the ballots to be less confusing this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-307232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307232","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=307232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307236,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307232\/revisions\/307236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}