{"id":313676,"date":"2019-04-29T06:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T04:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=313676"},"modified":"2019-04-29T08:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T06:09:06","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/313676\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-542\/","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=\"http:\/\/www.cefgroup.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Press-Release-26-April-2019-Change-1-May-2019-V3.pdf\">The Department of Energy has announced the fuel price changes for May<\/a><\/strong>, showing a 54 cents per litre increase for both grades of petrol (93 and 95) and a 1 cent per litre increase for diesel. Illuminating Paraffin will increase by 3 cents per litre, and gas will go up 84 cents per kg. [CEF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ANC secretary general Ace Magashule has defied president Cyril Ramaphosa, and is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/magashule-defies-ramaphosas-orders-and-talks-about-allegations-in-journos-book-20190428\">using ANC election rallies to defend himself against claims made in the Gangers State book<\/a><\/strong>. The ANC had ruled that the book matter was Magashule&#8217;s personal problem, and should not distract from the election. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Fired former deputy head or prosecutions at the NPA, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2019-04-29-npas-nomgcobo-jiba-will-fight-her-dismissal-by--ramaphosa\/\">Nomgcobo Jiba says she will fight against her dismissal<\/a><\/strong>, and the president disqualifying her from the public service. Jiba, along with Lawrence Mrwebi, were found to have abused their positions. [Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/-date-set-for-online-applications-grade-1-to-8-0\">Online applications for grades one through to eight in Gauteng open on May 18.<\/a> <\/strong>This is part of a new system for getting your children into your preferred schools without strict admission criteria. However priority will still be given to certain conditions &#8211; such as proximity and sibling attendance. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand strengthened slightly against the dollar on Friday with other emerging markets, but its gains were capped by a strong dollar ahead of US growth data. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R14.36 to the dollar, R18.58 to the pound and R16.03 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big petrol price hike is hitting this week; Ace Magashule defies Ramaphosa and uses ANC rallies for his own ends; Jiba will fight her dismissal from the NPA; and a date has been set for online applications for Gauteng schools to open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":263727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-313676","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\/313676","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=313676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313678,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313676\/revisions\/313678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}