{"id":738085,"date":"2023-12-13T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T05:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=738085"},"modified":"2023-12-13T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T05:50:07","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-1672","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/738085\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-1672\/","title":{"rendered":"5 important things happening in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s what is happening in and affecting South Africa today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Surpassed expectations:\u00a0<\/strong>A recent release shows that mining output rose 3.9% year on year &#8211; beating widespread estimates by experts of a 1.2% growth. The manufacturing is also up by 2.1%, beating forecasts of a 1.7% advance. [<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/737933\/nice-surprise-for-south-africa-but-the-problems-cant-be-ignored\/\">BusinessTech<\/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>What water crisis?:\u00a0<\/strong>Johannesburg Water says that there is no &#8220;water crisis&#8221; because only a few of the more than 100 water systems in the city have been affected by outages (hitting areas such as Sandton, CBD, the south, and west). This statement comes<strong> <\/strong>just two months after the entity said that the situation was a crisis. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/southafrica\/news\/joburg-is-not-suffering-a-water-crisis-because-the-situation-is-not-bad-enough-says-water-entity-20231213\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/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>Gauteng Crime Prevention Wardens get full police powers:<\/strong>&nbsp;Gauteng\u2019s controversial Gauteng Crime Prevention Wardens have been declared peace officers after the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services&nbsp;granted them formal legal powers under the Criminal Procedure Act.&nbsp;This means they will now have the power of arrest and can carry a firearm. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2023-12-12-gauteng-crime-prevention-wardens-get-full-police-powers-despite-irregularities-and-complaints\/\" target=\"_blank\">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>Constitutional Court win for asylum seekers:&nbsp;<\/strong>In a unanimous decision, South Africa&#8217;s apex court struck down provisions of the Refugees Act which deemed asylum seekers as illegal foreigners if they did not renew their visas within a month. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/court-win-for-asylum-seekers\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/court-win-for-asylum-seekers\/\" target=\"_blank\">GroundUp<\/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>&nbsp;The South African Rand rebounded in early trading on Tuesday against the dollar, as global markets prepared for consumer inflation data from the US, which could set the tone for the Federal Reserve&#8217;s future interest rate trajectory. On Wednesday (13 December), the rand was trading at R18.98 to the dollar, R23.82 to the pound and R20.47 to the euro. Oil is trading at $73.01 a barrel. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/currencies\/eur\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/currencies\/eur\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mining and manufacturing sector exceeds expectations; Joburg Water backtracks on crisis claims; Crime Prevention Wardens get legal powers; massive legal win for asylum seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":465200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18993],"class_list":["post-738085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738085","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738099,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738085\/revisions\/738099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}