{"id":574206,"date":"2022-04-05T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=574206"},"modified":"2022-04-05T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:35:30","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-1254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/574206\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-1254\/","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<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SARS: <\/strong>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) says that specialised auditors have assessed 33 churches and gathered over R740 million in tax revenue. Luxury vehicle owners also faced the brunt of SARS&#8217;s audit, with R160 million being yielded from them. SARS detailed that the findings on institutions such as the churches covered a wide range of misrepresentations concerning the true nature of the income and expenses of the people involved. [<a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2022\/04\/05\/sars-nets-r900m-in-tax-revenue-from-non-compliant-churches-luxury-car-owners\">EWN<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nuclear option: <\/strong>For the past two weeks, the long-term operational safety of Eskom&#8217;s struggling Koeberg nuclear power plant has been reviewed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after being requested by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. Eskom plans to extend the operations of the Koeberg units by 20 years until 2045. The senior safety officer of IAEA noted that the plant had eliminated multiple previous deviations from safety guidelines and encouraged the plant to address further findings. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2022-04-04-koeberg-gets-a-safety-thumbs-up-from-iaea-while-eskoms-veil-of-secrecy-lingers\/\">Daily Maverick<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Workplace Covid rules:<\/strong> Despite removing the state of disaster, Covid-19 regulations remain for employers as more people return to work. A new Code of Practice aims to enforce measures taken in the workplace to contain the spread of Covid-19. The code has faced criticism from people accusing politicians of entrenching unnecessary regulations to extend their power and by legal experts arguing that existing legislation already covers many of the &#8216;new measures&#8217;. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/new-covid-measures-for-employers-even-after-the-lifting-of-the-state-of-disaster\/\">Moneyweb<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ANC step down:\u00a0<\/strong>Two days after being elected as the ANC&#8217;s Mpumalanga treasurer-general, Mandla Msibi has been asked to step down. He faces murder and attempted murder charges connected to a shooting. He was allowed to accept the nomination, despite being ineligible to serve in a political position. This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s address to a conference in Mpumalanga, the weekend of Msibi&#8217;s election, where he said that the whole of the ANC is &#8216;on fire&#8217;.[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/southafrica\/news\/just-in-anc-tells-mpumalanga-murder-accused-treasurer-to-step-aside-2-days-after-he-was-elected-20220404\">News24<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Markets:\u00a0<\/strong>Global indexes rose on Monday, with the Nasdaq leading gains on Wall Street. At the same time, the US dollar strengthened as European leaders urged further sanctions against Moscow following war crime allegations in Ukraine. The crude oil price rose over 3.52% as the release of strategic reserves by consuming nations failed to eliminate supply fears. The rand is currently trading at R14.57\/$, R15.98\/\u20ac and R19.12\/\u00a3. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/global-markets-stocks-dollar-rise-european-leaders-urge-further-moscow-sanctions\">Nasdaq<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an audit, the South African Revenue Service has yielded R740 million for churches. Eskom&#8217;s struggling Koeberg nuclear power plant has been commended by the International Atomic Energy Agency. New Covid-19 workplace regulations face criticism after lifting the national state of disaster. The recently elected ANC Mpumalanga treasurer-general has been asked to step down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":466704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-574206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574206","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=574206"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574312,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574206\/revisions\/574312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}