{"id":357009,"date":"2019-11-26T07:16:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=357009"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:16:39","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-687","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/357009\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-687\/","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>Sanral is evaluating tenders for the continued management of e-toll collection, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/sanral-evaluating-tenders-for-new-e-toll-management-contract\/\">alluding to the system remaining firmly in place for the foreseeable future.<\/a> <\/strong>Current toll collection company ETC&#8217;s contract expires next month, while motorists wait for the outcome of a special government process to determine what will happen with the controversial system. Motorists have rejected the system and largely do not pay toll fees. [Moneyweb]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/critical-water-infrastructure-under-threat-as-department-plays-russian-roulette-with-the-nation-20191126\">Critical water infrastructure in South Africa has been left in the lurch as the Department of Water and Sanitation is embroiled in a legal battle<\/a> <\/strong>over an expired maintenance contract. The department has reportedly ignored legal advice to award the tender to preferred bidders, and is instead challenging the matter in court &#8211; but is failing to actually submit papers. It is now forced to contract costly suppliers to do emergency repair work in a crisis it created for itself. [City Press]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Companies\/Industrial\/scopa-blasts-saa-for-failure-to-present-financial-statements-20191123\">The Standing Committee on Public Accounts has blasted SAA for failing to publish its financial results for the past two years<\/a><\/strong>, accusing the airline of disregarding parliamentary processes. SAA has posted losses every year for the better part of a decade, and finds itself once again in financial crisis. The group just came out of a week-long strike, which cost it millions. [Fin24]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In her latest delaying tactic,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/myeni-wants-change-pleas\"> former SAA chair Dudu Myeni now wants to change some of her pleas in the case brought against her by Outa<\/a><\/strong>, to have her declared a delinquent director. The case has been delayed four times already, due to Myeni simply not turning up to court. She now claims that her legal team misled her, and that&#8217;s why she pleaded guilty to some charges. [ENCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa\u2019s rand weakened on Monday, giving up small early gains as uncertainty over a trade agreement between the United States and China outweighed relief from S&amp;P\u2019s decision to only downgrade the outlook, not the rating, on the country\u2019s debt. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Tuesday the rand was at R14.75 to the dollar, R19.02 to the pound and R16.25 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanral is evaluating e-toll collection tenders &#8211; so it looks like the system is staying; SA&#8217;s water infrastructure is crumbling, while the department of water and sanitation messes about in court; SAA gets blasted by parliament for not publishing financial results, again; and former SAA chair moves to delay her court battle once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-357009","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\/357009","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=357009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357053,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357009\/revisions\/357053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}