{"id":319916,"date":"2019-05-29T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=319916"},"modified":"2019-05-29T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:00:36","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-561","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/319916\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-561\/","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:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-05-28-gordhan-opponents-pounce-in-the-wake-of-public-protectors-pension-payout-report\">Knives are out for Pravin Gordhan, as his critics and political opponents make demands that he be kept out of cabinet<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; which some expect the president to announce today. Gordhan has challenged the public protector report claiming that he acted improperly, which <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-05-27-cruising-nicely-on-vbs-effs-parties-lies-and-looted-money\/\">may be enough to see him return to government<\/a><\/strong>. [M&amp;G, News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A new investigation by Scorpio has laid out proof that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-05-27-cruising-nicely-on-vbs-effs-parties-lies-and-looted-money\/\">the EFF and its leaders Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu all received money from the VBS looting scandal<\/a><\/strong>. The investigative ream traced money from various accounts linked to the looting, showing that at least R4 million reached the party. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s new carbon tax will kick in this Saturday, bringing with it higher fuel prices. However, experts have noted that<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/carbon-tax-opportunity-expert\"> the tax isn&#8217;t a punishment, but is rather there to protect people<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; and should rather push and accelerate government, and industry into using cleaner processes. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>MTN has just listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and is already hitting trouble, with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/349992\/mtn-shares-in-nigeria-tank-on-corruption-agency-probe-of-its-listing-in-lagos-the-money-show-s-bruce\">group confirming that its listing is now being investigated by the country&#8217;s anti-corruption body<\/a><\/strong>. The group;&#8217;s stock on the NSE was hit hard by the news, dropping by 7.2% on Monday and another 7.2% on Tuesday. [702]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand tumbled to its weakest in three weeks on Tuesday as deputy president David Mabuza was sworn in as a lawmaker after being cleared by the ruling ANC of bringing the party into disrepute. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Wednesday the rand was at R14.71 to the dollar, R18.62 to the pound and R16.43 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knives are out for Gordhan ahead of Ramaphosa&#8217;s imminent cabinet announcement; the EFF and its leaders scored millions from VBS looting, a new investigation shows; the carbon tax is here, but it&#8217;s not a punishment, experts say; and MTN is in trouble in Nigeria again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":134591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-319916","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\/319916","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=319916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319920,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319916\/revisions\/319920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}