{"id":805888,"date":"2025-01-07T07:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T05:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=805888"},"modified":"2025-01-07T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T06:53:54","slug":"new-brics-member-and-matric-results-court-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/5-things\/805888\/new-brics-member-and-matric-results-court-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"New BRICS member, and matric results court battle"},"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>New BRICS member:<\/strong>\u00a0Indonesia will\u00a0formally join BRICS as a full member,\u00a0Brazil\u2019s government said,\u00a0further expanding the group of major emerging economies that also includes Russia, India, China and South Africa. Indonesia\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that it welcomed the announcement and that \u201cBRICS membership is a strategic way to increase collaboration and partnership with other developing nations.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/indonesia-joins-brics-bloc-as-full-member-brazil-says\/\">SABC<\/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>DBE in court:<\/strong> The Information Regulator is set to appear before the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria in a case against the national Department of Basic Education over the publication of the 2024 matric results. The regulator seeks a final interdict against the department for its intention to publish or cause other parties to publish the results of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations held in 2024. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2025\/01\/07\/information-regulator-to-battle-dbe-over-matric-results-publication-before-the-court\">EWN<\/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>Horror crash on the N3:<\/strong> 18 people, including 5 children, were killed in a crash on the N3 at Van Reenen&#8217;s Pass in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday night. The Road Traffic Management Corporation said a truck, minibus and light motor vehicle were involved in the multiple-vehicle crash. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/southafrica\/news\/18-die-baby-severely-injured-in-horror-crash-on-van-reenens-pass-20250107\">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>Thousands of 2025 arrests:<\/strong> Police have said that from 30 December 2024 to 5 January 2025, at least 13,105 suspects have been arrested and 125 illegal firearms recovered during the nationwide operation. This was through means like tracking operations, roadblocks, high visibility patrols, stop-and-searches, and tracing wanted suspects. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/crime\/police-arrest-suspects-first-week-2025\/\">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>Markets:<\/strong> The rand regained some ground against a weaker dollar on Monday ahead of a flurry of economic data releases this week from the world&#8217;s biggest economy. On Tuesday (07 January), the rand was trading at R18.59 to the dollar, R23.31 to the pound, and R19.31 to the euro. Oil is trading at $76.25 a barrel. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/south-african-rand-weakens-ahead-us-data-flurry-2025-01-06\/\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are 5 important things happening in South Africa today (7 January 2025). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":789905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993],"class_list":["post-805888","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\/805888","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=805888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805925,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805888\/revisions\/805925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}