{"id":310750,"date":"2019-04-12T06:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=310750"},"modified":"2019-04-12T06:48:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:48:33","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-533","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/310750\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-533\/","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>The Public Protector has subpoenaed public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/pravin-gordhan-subpoenaed-again-over-sars-rogue-unit\">to once gain submit an affidavit about the so-called &#8216;SARS rogue unit&#8217;<\/a><\/strong>. The unit has already been investigated several times, and a case against those involved was dropped by the NPA. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/southAfricaNews\/idAFL8N21T5W5\">cleared three account holders of any wrongdoing relating to trades made before the collapse Steinhoff.<\/a><\/strong> The accounts were among those suspected of insider trading before the company disclosed massive accounting irregularities in December 2017. [Reuters]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2019-04-11-trevor-manuel-sues-eff-over-baseless-claims-of-nepotism\/\">Former finance minister Trevor Manuel is suing the EFF for defamation<\/a><\/strong>, after the party made &#8220;baseless claims&#8221; that he used undue influence to manipulate the appointment of Edward Kieswetter as the head of SARS. The claims were made by EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Opposition parties are stoking fears that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-04-12-how-seriously-should-we-take-the-idea-that-the-anc-might-axe-ramaphosa-shortly-after-the-elections\/\">the ANC will recall president Cyril Ramaphosa as soon as the party has attained a strong majority<\/a><\/strong> vote in the 2019 national elections. They allege that factions within the party, aligned to the previous administration are fighting back against Ramaphosa&#8217;s clean-up. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened on Thursday as the US dollar firmed and weak domestic mining and manufacturing data pointed to soft economic growth at the start of the year.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\"> On Friday the rand was at R13.98 to the dollar, R18.28 to the pound and R15.78 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordhan subpoenaed by the Public Protector over the &#8220;SARS rogue unit&#8221; again; trading accounts cleared of any wrongdoing in Steinhoff trades ahead of its collapse; Trevor Manuel sues the EFF for defamation; and opposition parties stoke fears that the ANC has it in for Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":139895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-310750","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\/310750","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=310750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310752,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310750\/revisions\/310752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}