{"id":314030,"date":"2019-04-30T06:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T04:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=314030"},"modified":"2019-04-30T06:55:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T04:55:22","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/314030\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-543\/","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=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/ramaphosa-admits-anc-allowed-state-capture\">President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the ANC allowed state capture to happen<\/a><\/strong>, admitting that state institutions were targeted with members of the party used as a gateway into them. Ramaphosa said that admitting fault was a key tool in turning things around and rooting out corruption. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Young voters have turned their backs on South African politics, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-04-30\/youth-voters-at-20-year-low-as-south-africa-protests-beat-polls\">with registered voters in this populations group dropping to its lowest point since 1999<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; barely making it past half the number that were registered to vote in 2014. Apathy has been bred from empty promises, high unemployment and corruption, analysts say. [Bloomberg]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/346548\/empty-rental-properties-everywhere-as-the-residential-market-in-south-africa-tanks\">South Africa&#8217;s residential property market has tanked, according to analysts<\/a><\/strong>, with rental property standing open at the highest levels on record. 7% of rentals are unoccupied, going as high as 8.1% in Cape Town. 94% of property owners had to lower their price by 9% to make a sale. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ford South Africa has announced <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/mercury\/news\/ford-says-its-working-on-new-security-solutions-22167254\">a plan to resolve security issues in some of its older models of the Fiesta and EcoSport<\/a><\/strong>, which have made them targets for criminals in recent months. The fix will make it that the car&#8217;s alarm will sound when accessed through a broken lock. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed against a steady dollar on Monday, as investors looked ahead to key offshore events including a report from the US central bank, while stocks fell. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R14.34 to the dollar, R18.56 to the pound, and R16.04 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa admits the ANC allowed state capture to happen; young voters give elections the middle finger; South Africa&#8217;s residential property market has tanked; and Ford South Africa has a plan to address security issues with its Fiesta and EcoSport models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-314030","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\/314030","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=314030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314032,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314030\/revisions\/314032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}