{"id":326119,"date":"2019-06-28T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=326119"},"modified":"2019-06-28T07:03:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T05:03:25","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-582","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/326119\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-582\/","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>Head of the National Prosecuting Authority Shamila Batohi says that the state of the office is<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-06-28-shamila-batohi-the-state-of-the-npa-is-much-worse-than-expected\/\"> far worse than she had expected, describing it as a &#8216;house on fire&#8217;.<\/a> <\/strong>Some of the issues faced include divisions, untrained staff, a skills exodus, and other effects from the instability and poor leadership from before. [Daily Maverick]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-06-27-ramaphosa-formally-responds-to-mkhwebane-probe\">President Cyril Ramaphosa has submitted his official response to the public protector<\/a><\/strong>, over allegations that he accepted donations from Bosasa as a bribe. The president&#8217;s submission is said to contain &#8220;various confirmatory affidavits and supporting documents&#8221; to bring the matter to a close. [M&amp;G]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan says we a far from in the clear regarding corruption and networks of capture at companies &#8211; both state owned and private. He says the various commissions into state capture have showed that<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/gordhan-sa-has-work-cut-out-to-get-back-gupta-money-quash-corruption-20190628-2\"> there are many players in the acts, and there are many &#8216;hidden facilitators&#8217; that sit all along the management chain<\/a><\/strong>. [News24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The City of Cape Town is cementing its reputation as the murder capital of the county, with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/cape-town-murder-rate-rises\">new data pointing to an alarming rise in the city&#8217;s murder rate<\/a><\/strong>. Officials have recorded over 2,302 murders in the area so far in 2019. The crimes are tied to a rise in gang violence, for which government is sending in special teams to address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand gained on Thursday on hopes the United States and China could reach an agreement at the G20 summit this week to prevent a further escalation in their trade war. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Friday the rand was trading at R14.17 to the dollar, R17.95 to the pound and R16.11 to the the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA&#8217;s chief prosecutor says the NPA is in a bigger mess than she ever anticipated; Ramaphosa has responded to the public protector&#8217;s investigation into him; Gordhan says the fight against corruption is far from over; and Cape Town sees a spike in gang murders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":289254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-326119","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\/326119","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=326119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326123,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326119\/revisions\/326123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}