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‘New’ kind of university<\/strong> coming:\u00a0<\/strong>The Minister of Higher Education and Training announced a new policy in the Government Gazette regarding the Recognition of South African Higher Education Institutional Types. This policy allows private higher education institutions to register as “private universities” if they meet specific criteria. It also establishes standards for recognising “private university colleges” and “private higher education colleges,” focusing on governance, research output, program accreditation, and community contributions. [News24<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile<\/strong> snubs America:<\/strong>\u00a0ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile urged the government to seek alternative markets instead of relying on the US He emphasised the need to diversify trade, stating, \u201cWe must not beg [Trump]; we need to explore other markets to avoid being affected by high trade issues in America.\u201d [Mail & Guardian<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Investors dump Pick n Pay:<\/strong>\u00a0Shares of Pick n Pay declined by as much as 8% on Monday as investors seemingly reluctantly began to accept CEO Sean Summers\u2019s view that the turnaround of its core business to profit will still take at least another two years. [Moneyweb<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Warning to people who use Gmail:<\/strong> An extensive breach has resulted in the leak of data from 183 million email users, many of whom are Gmail users, including email addresses, passwords, and the websites where users entered the data. [MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wage demands in important sector deadlocked:<\/strong>\u00a0The Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation (AMEO) has offered a 6.5% increase for the first year and a 5% increase for the following two years. Numsa rejected the offer, citing higher recent wage agreements in other sectors. The union may consider striking as a last resort and is calling for an urgent meeting between company CEOs and Numsa leadership to resolve the deadlock. [Engineering News<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are 5 important things happening in South Africa today, Tuesday, 28 October 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":837983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-841128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things","tag-5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841128","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841134,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841128\/revisions\/841134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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