{"id":315892,"date":"2019-05-10T07:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=315892"},"modified":"2019-05-10T07:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T05:02:53","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-549","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/315892\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-549\/","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.elections.org.za\/NPEDashboard\/App\/dashboard.html#\">With 75% of voting station ballots counted, the outcome of the 2019 elections has become clear<\/a><\/strong>. At 57.2% of the vote currently, the ANC has secured another majority win, though with a major loss of support. The DA has also dropped slightly with 21.8%, while the EFF has managed to enter the double digits at 10.1%. [IEC]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The provincial battle is heating up in Gauteng, with the ANC currently holding onto its majority by a thread, but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/mbalula-concedes-defeat-wcape\">it&#8217;s game over for the party in the Western Cape, with the ANC admitting defeat.<\/a> <\/strong>The party said it wanted to cut the DA to below 50% in the province, but conceded it had failed. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/05\/10\/delay-in-poll-results-a-possibility-as-iec-probes-voter-fraud-claims\">The final vote announcement could be delayed, as the IEC investigates claims of voter fraud.<\/a><\/strong> The body said that it will only announce the final vote &#8211; currently scheduled for tomorrow &#8211; when it is 100% confident in the integrity of the numbers. There are claims that some people voted twice, due to ID and ink issues. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/no-ngc-can-remove-ramaphosa-mantashe-20190510\">The ANC has rubbished talk of an internal plot to remove president Cyril Ramaphosa after the election<\/a><\/strong>, saying that the only way the party can remove a president is by setting up an early election conference or special conference, which needs buy-in from a majority of the provinces. Ramaphosa will stay until 2022, when the next elective conference will be held. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand gave up its earlier gains on Thursday as another round of risk selling in global markets fuelled by the US-China trade talks outweighed local election positives. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was at R14.33 to the dollar, R18.65 to the pound and R16.10 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>75% of the ballots are counted, and the ANC has secured a decent majority; the battle for Gauteng is still on, but the ANC admits defeat in the Cape; and the final vote announcement could be delayed as the IEC investigates voter fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":122533,"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":[26],"class_list":["post-315892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315892","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=315892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315894,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315892\/revisions\/315894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}