{"id":371400,"date":"2020-02-06T07:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=371400"},"modified":"2020-02-06T07:05:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:05:34","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/371400\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-730\/","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.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2020-02-05-ramaphosa-in-favour-of-cosatus-eskom-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Cyril Ramaphosa is in favour of Cosatu&#8217;s plan to use R250 billion of pension money managed by the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) to pay down Eskom\u2019s debt.<\/a><\/strong> Conditions of the deal would include that no worker at Eskom would lose their job and that Eskom would not be privatised. [BusinessDay]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2020\/02\/06\/higher-demand-sees-power-cuts-extended-to-friday-possibly-the-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eskom on Wednesday said stage 2 load shedding would continue until Friday with the probability of rolling blackouts going into the weekend.<\/a> <\/strong>The power utility said high demand and a shortage of capacity were to blame. [EWN]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/sars-recovers-over-r2-billion-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The South African Revenue Services has recovered over R2.6 billion in taxes since April 2019 as it continues to clamp down on non-payment.<\/a> <\/strong>It said it It is\u00a0working closely with the National Prosecuting Authority and the Special Investigating Unit to bring criminals to book. [eNCA]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A day after a warrant of arrest was issued for not appearing in court due to illness,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/social-media\/2238081\/sick-jacob-zuma-tweets-pic-of-himself-firing-a-rifle-over-his-quadbike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> former president Jacob Zuma sent social media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/social-media\/2238081\/sick-jacob-zuma-tweets-pic-of-himself-firing-a-rifle-over-his-quadbike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">into a frenzy by tweeting only a picture of himself aiming a rifle with a scope balanced on his quadbike at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/social-media\/2238081\/sick-jacob-zuma-tweets-pic-of-himself-firing-a-rifle-over-his-quadbike\/\">.<\/a> Zuma&#8217;s attorneys had submitted a sick note from a military hospital but Judge Dhaya Pillay questioned this, as the note had allegedly been altered. [The Citizen]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The rand and other emerging markets strengthened on Wednesday on the news of a possible treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/currencyconverter\/convert\/?Amount=1&amp;From=USD&amp;To=ZAR\">On Thursday the rand was at R14.73 to the dollar, R19.13 to the pound and R16.19 to the euro.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa is in favour of a controversial plan to save Eskom; The power utility has warned that more load shedding is coming; SARS is going after dodgy taxpayers; and former president Jacob Zuma has sent the country into a frenzy after he tweeted while &#8216;sick&#8217;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":106747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-371400","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\/371400","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=371400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371414,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371400\/revisions\/371414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}