{"id":701041,"date":"2023-07-04T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=701041"},"modified":"2023-07-04T08:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:10:32","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-1560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/701041\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-1560\/","title":{"rendered":"5 important things happening in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s what is happening in and affecting South Africa today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Future load shedding warning:<\/strong> Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says South Africa needs to ensure that it upgrades and expands the nation&#8217;s electricity grid to avoid another energy crisis in the future. He said that the current system cannot bring on enough new generation capacity from renewable energy sources from the areas best suited for it. He said that the grid capacity in the Northern and Western Cape is nearly exhausted, while there is insufficient capacity in the Eastern Cape to connect the amount of renewable energy that South Africa would need to meet future demand. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2023-07-03-policymakers-must-learn-from-mistakes-in-electricity-planning-says-ramokgopa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Business Day<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>DOJ gets record fine<\/strong>: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has been given a R5 million fine for failing to purchase antivirus software. The fine, handed down by the information regulator, is the highest penalty imposed for noncompliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia). In 2021, the department was hit by a cyberattack after failing to renew its antivirus software, including its intrusion detection license, which would have flagged the attack. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2023-07-04-justice-department-slapped-with-r5m-fine-over-tardiness-in-fixing-it-breaches\/\" target=\"_blank\">Business Day<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>amaBhungane vs Moti<\/strong>: The Johannesburg High Court has set aside a gag order preventing investigative journalists amaBhungane\u00a0from reporting on leaked documents from the Moti Group. The group gained the gag order in secret, without submissions from amaBhungane, on the basis that the documents were stolen. The High Court called this an abuse of process while also finding no grounds for the order to be given. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2023\/07\/03\/moti-group-s-mogajane-slams-court-for-setting-aside-gag-order-on-leaked-docs\" target=\"_blank\">EWN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2023-07-03-moti-interdict-a-most-egregious-abuse-judge-rules-in-massive-vindication-for-amabhungane-and-journalism\/\">Daily Maverick<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>DA&#8217;s attitude problem<\/strong>: Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Velenkosini Hlabisa&nbsp;says the multi-party pact can only succeed at next year&#8217;s election if the Democratic Alliance changes its &#8220;big brother&#8221; attitude. Hlabisa said that this attitude saw the DA&#8217;s former Johannesburg Mayor, Mpho Phaltase, removed from her role earlier this year. Several opposition parties, including IFP, DA, FF+, and Action SA, are set to hold a National Convention next month to discuss a possible pact ahead of the  2024 election. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/da-needs-to-change-big-brother-attitude-for-multi-party-pact-to-succeed-hlabisa\/\" target=\"_blank\">SABC News<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Markets:<\/strong> The rand strengthened on Monday, recovering&nbsp;some losses incurred&nbsp;last week along with other emerging market currencies. Analysts warned that the risk-sensitive rand was susceptible to further weakness in the near term amid hawkish tones by central banks worldwide, including the U.S. Federal Reserve. On Tuesday (4 July), the rand was trading at R18.77\/$, R20.46\/\u20ac, and R23.82\/\u00a3. Brent crude is trading at $74.96 a barrel. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/south-african-rand-strengthens-against-the-dollar\" target=\"_blank\">Nasdaq<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another energy crisis on the horizon; record POPIA fine for Justice Department; amaBhungane gag order set aside; IFP criticises DA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":642179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-701041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701041","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701041"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701071,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701041\/revisions\/701071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}