{"id":316646,"date":"2019-05-14T06:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T04:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=316646"},"modified":"2019-05-14T06:36:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T04:36:42","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/316646\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-551\/","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>DA leader Mmusi Maimane has penned a letter to staff <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2019-05-13-i-take-full-responsibility-for-the-outcome-of-this-election-maimane\/\">taking full responsibility for the party&#8217;s poor showing in the 2019 election.<\/a><\/strong> He said that an independent review process will take place to identify what went wrong, and that changes will be made to ensure the party grows stronger. [TimesLive]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/ancnec-sihle-zikalala-given-kzn-premier-role-23169939\">ANC has announced its premier candidates for the provinces<\/a><\/strong> where it secured a majority in the 2019 national election. This includes Ramaphosa-opponent Sihle Zikalala for KwaZulu Natal, and a return for David Makhura in Gauteng. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/organizations-call-strong-cabinet\">With the elections now over, eyes are on South Africa&#8217;s future cabinet<\/a><\/strong>, with market players calling for a compact leadership, where roles are filled by expertise, not loyalty. Analysts say Ramaphosa needs the right skills to implement the policies that stand, as he doesn&#8217;t have time to create new ones. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/economists-predict-slight-increase-in-unemployment-rate-20190514-2\">Stats SA will publish South Africa&#8217;s latest employment stats today<\/a><\/strong>, and economists expect bad news, anticipating unemployment figures to go up. In the last report, unemployment was at 27.2% &#8211; analysts expect this to jump to around 27.5%. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened on Monday, shedding election- inspired gains, as an escalation in the US-China trade war dented emerging market currencies, while stocks also retreated. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R14.29 to the dollar, R18.52 to the pound and R16.02 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DA leader Mmusi Maimane takes full responsibility for the party&#8217;s poor showing during the elections; the ANC announces its premier candidates; market players want a tight, skilled cabinet from Ramaphosa; and analysts expect higher unemployment figures today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":315496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-316646","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\/316646","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=316646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316648,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316646\/revisions\/316648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}