{"id":765653,"date":"2024-04-04T07:56:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T05:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=765653"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:58:05","slug":"5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-1742","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/5-things\/765653\/5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today-1742\/","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<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Former speaker expected to hand herself over:<\/strong>\u00a0News24 has reported that former speaker of the National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who resigned late on Wednesday, has arrived at the Lyttelton Police Station in Centurion to hand herself over to officials from the Investigating Directorate for charges of alleged corruption.\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/southafrica\/news\/breaking-former-speaker-arrives-at-police-station-will-hand-herself-over-20240404\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/southafrica\/news\/breaking-former-speaker-arrives-at-police-station-will-hand-herself-over-20240404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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>Another Ekurhuleni mayoral election:<\/strong>&nbsp;The City of Ekurhuleni is expected to hold a council meeting today for the election of its fourth executive mayor in less than four years. The most recent mayor, Sivuyile&nbsp;Ngodwana from the AIC, was sacked through a motion of no-confidence on 28 March 2024.&nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2024-04-04-fourth-ekurhuleni-mayoral-election-in-four-years-will-test-the-anc-eff-alliance\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2024-04-04-fourth-ekurhuleni-mayoral-election-in-four-years-will-test-the-anc-eff-alliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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>Warning over financial service provider scammers:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has sent out a warning to consumers that individuals or entities are fraudulently soliciting investments by impersonating authorised financial services providers or claiming that they are associated with them.[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/business\/personal-finance\/fsca-warns-that-scammers-are-impersonating-financial-services-providers\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/business\/personal-finance\/fsca-warns-that-scammers-are-impersonating-financial-services-providers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Citizen<\/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>SCA dismisses RAF appeal:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has dismissed the Road Accident Fund&#8217;s (RAF) appeal to increase claim documentation requirements, which ultimately aims reduce eligible claimants. This decision counters the RAF&#8217;s attempts to bar undocumented foreigners and medical scheme members from claiming from the fund. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2024-04-03-sca-dismisses-raf-appeal-over-new-claims-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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>Markets:<\/strong> The rand recovered against the U.S dollar on Wednesday, as focus shifted towards a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair for clues on the timing of potential interest rate cuts.&nbsp;On Thursday (4 April), the rand was trading at R18.68 to the dollar, R23.64 to the pound, and R20.24 to the euro. Oil is trading at $89.66 a barrel. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/south-african-rand-slips-against-dollar-2024-04-03\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/south-african-rand-slips-against-dollar-2024-04-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former speaker to hand herself over; another Ekurhuleni mayoral election; warning of financial service provider scammers; and SCA dismisses RAF appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":765685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993],"class_list":["post-765653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things","tag-5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765653","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=765653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765687,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765653\/revisions\/765687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}