{"id":312646,"date":"2019-04-23T07:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=312646"},"modified":"2019-04-23T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:04:44","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-538","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/312646\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-538\/","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>Finance minister Tito Mboweni says that former Absa CEO Maria Ramos is among the names of those being considered to lead Eskom&#8217;s unbundling, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-04-22-mboweni-admits-ramos-among-those-considered-to-head-eskom-unbundling\">but she hasn&#8217;t been selected yet, as processes are still underway<\/a><\/strong>. [Mail &amp; Guardian]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Those looking to use the Department of Home Affairs&#8217; online services have been frustrated,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/303844-home-affairs-first-down-for-maintenance-now-simply-down.html\"> with the department&#8217;s site being down for over two weeks, and no word when it will be back up.<\/a><\/strong> Citizens are unable to use services like booking for smart IDs or checking visa regulations. [MyBroadband]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-04-22-hundreds-arrested-during-easter-holiday-crime-blitz-in-gauteng\/\">Over 900 people were arrested over the Easter weekend in a police crime blitz in Gauteng<\/a><\/strong>. The arrests were for a number of crimes including driving under the influence, assault, and possession of drugs or dangerous weapons. Counterfeit goods were also seized. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Political parties are finding that corruption and a lack of service delivery are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-04-23-searching-for-undecideds-and-why-vote-at-alls-anc-da-and-ifp-find-discontent-grows-deep\/\">making the voting population apathetic &#8211; with many choosing not to vote at all.<\/a> <\/strong>Voters have grown tired of waiting for houses, or only seeing party representatives when they campaign ahead of elections. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s currency traded weaker on Thursday, shifting back above the R14.00 mark with investors closing positions and taking profits in anticipation of low volume ahead of the Easter holidays. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">After the Easter break, the rand was trading at R14.17 to the dollar, R18.41 to the pound and R15.95 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramos is on the list to head Eskom&#8217;s unbundling, but no decision has been made yet; Home Affairs&#8217; website has been down for 2 weeks; Over 900 arrested in Easter Weekend blitz; and political parties are finding voters are becoming more apathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-312646","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\/312646","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=312646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312648,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312646\/revisions\/312648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}