{"id":315012,"date":"2019-05-06T07:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=315012"},"modified":"2019-05-06T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:03:54","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-546","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/315012\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-546\/","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>South Africa&#8217;s major political parties held their final election rallies this weekend. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-05-05-graft-accused-have-no-place-in-the-anc-government-and-parliament-ramaphosa\">ANC promised to stamp out corruption<\/a><\/strong>. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-05-05-do-the-right-thing-vote-eff-malema\">EFF said that it was the party for the poor<\/a> <\/strong>who the ANC had abandoned. And the DA urged voters to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/politics\/2019-05-05-da-confident-of-achieving-its-electoral-targets\/\">skip the ANC and EFF&#8217;s lies and vote for real change<\/a><\/strong>. [M&amp;G, Business Day]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/iec-says-theyre-ready-early-voters\">The IEC says it is ready for the 2019 elections, which kick off today with the special votes.<\/a> <\/strong>The group says it expects no incidents, but has contingencies in place in case anything happens. This includes strike teams and police presence &#8211; particularly in gang areas where problems could occur. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has been further implicated in underhanded dealings with businessmen, requesting what appears to be payments &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-05-05-whatsapps-expose-floyd-shivambu-and-the-red-boys\/\">despite not declaring any of these interests to parliament<\/a><\/strong>. A new investigation by amaBhungane and the Daily Maverick unveils more. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The City of Cape Town does not have a system in place to allow motorists to submit dash-cam footage of motorists committing road crimes. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/347085\/oops-city-of-cape-town-won-t-accept-dash-cam-footage\">The city said that officers have to witness the crime themselves and have their own recordings<\/a><\/strong>. The City of Joburg recently opened up a platform for this. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand firmed on Friday as a modest US jobs report weighed on the dollar, although many investors stayed on the sidelines with national elections just a few days away. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday the rand was at R14.48 to the dollar, R19.00 to the pound and R16.21 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC, DA and EFF deliver their final messages at their closing election rallies; the IEC is ready for the elections which kick off today with special votes; and EFF deputy Floyd Shivambu implicated in dodgy dealings again in new investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315012","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=315012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315014,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315012\/revisions\/315014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}