{"id":308676,"date":"2019-04-03T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=308676"},"modified":"2019-04-03T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T04:52:11","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-526","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/308676\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-526\/","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>Eskom and the department of public enterprises <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/gordhan-update-sa-state-eskom\">will today provide and update on the state of electricity in South Africa.<\/a> <\/strong>The country is in its second week without load shedding, but experts have warned that things could change at any point, given how close to the edge we are. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The ANC&#8217;s NEC says that its controversial party list &#8211; which includes names of people accused of corruption, or have been found by the courts to have been in violation of their office &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/343452\/calls-for-political-party-candidate-lists-to-be-reviewed-intensify\">has been referred to the party&#8217;s ethics committee for review<\/a><\/strong>. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A new investigation by Scorpio has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-04-03-the-great-vbs-heist-how-the-shivambu-brothers-benefited-even-more\/\">uncovered possible fraud by the Shivambu brothers, related to the VBS looting scandal<\/a><\/strong>. The reporters claim that paper trails show how the Shivambus used a R4 million business loan they did not qualify for, and never serviced. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Former president Kgalema Motlanthe says the ANC faces a critical election,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/04\/03\/motlanthe-anc-needs-to-lose-elections-to-reflect\"> and suggested that a loss for the party would perhaps be what it needs to stop and reflect<\/a><\/strong>. He said it would give the party the opportunity to revamp and re-energise. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened against a firmer US dollar in afternoon trade on Tuesday, retreating from a one-month high hit earlier in the session after Moody\u2019s rating action relief. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday, the rand was at R14.18 to the dollar, R18.63 to the pound and R15.92 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom to give an update on the ongoing power crisis; the ANC party list will be reviewed by the ethics committee; new investigation again ties the EFF&#8217;s Shivambu to VBS looting; and former president Motlanthe says a loss for the ANC these elections will give the party room to reflect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":90548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-308676","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\/308676","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=308676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308678,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308676\/revisions\/308678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}