{"id":349199,"date":"2019-10-28T07:20:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=349199"},"modified":"2019-10-28T07:24:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:24:19","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/349199\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-666\/","title":{"rendered":"5 important things happening in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what is happening in and affecting South Africa today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netwerk24.com\/Nuus\/Algemeen\/nuwe-hoop-op-die-platteland-20191027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eskom has agreed to a landmark deal with businesses in a Free State town that will see the two parties effectively bypass the municipality as a middle-man.<\/a><\/strong> The Harrismith Business Forum signed a contract with Eskom on Friday whereby the power utility will deliver power directly to the town&#8217;s 100 biggest power users &#8211; setting a precedent for other towns across the country.. [Rapport]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/city-of-cape-town-to-fight-aarto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The City of Cape Town will fight the new Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act and its incoming demerit system.<\/a><\/strong> Member of the mayoral committee for safety and security, JP Smith, \u00a0says the two Aarto pilot projects in Johannesburg and Tshwane failed to reduce road fatalities and destroyed municipal revenue from law enforcement. [Moneyweb]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/its-not-working-for-south-africans-marriage-policy-to-be-changed-36042226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Government is looking to change its existing marriage laws to recognise a wider range of relationships.<\/a><\/strong> Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says that none of the three (policies) recognise Muslim, Hindu or Jewish marriages or the marriages in traditional royal families. [IOL]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/malema-shivambu-to-stay-but-rest-of-eff-leadership-will-bite-the-dust-20191028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The EFF is set to see a major leadership shake-up at its elective conference scheduled for 13 December<\/a>. While leader Julius Malema and his deputy Floyd Shivambu are likely to keep their places, the rest of the party&#8217;s top six is expected to be replaced. [City Press]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The rand traded stronger on Friday as tensions between the US and China seem to be closer to signing a trade deal next month, while the UK appears to have secured an extension to the Brexit deadline from the EU. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Monday, the rand was at R14.62 to the dollar, R18.74 to the pound and R16.21 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom agrees to a landmark deal with businesses; Cape Town will fight the incoming demerit system; South Africa is changing its marriage laws; and the EFF is set for a major leadership shake-up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":329439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-349199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349199","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=349199"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349229,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349199\/revisions\/349229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}