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Warning to South Africans with green ID books:<\/strong>\u00a0Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has highlighted that green ID books present a substantial security risk, urging South Africans to switch to Smart IDs. The last security update for these ID books was in 2000, adding only a black-and-white photograph. The security features of South Africa\u2019s green ID books haven\u2019t evolved with technological advances, which makes them vulnerable to criminal abuse. [Newsday<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trouble for South Africa’s automotive ndustry:\u00a0<\/strong>The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) announced that a last-minute attempt to resolve a wage deadlock with car manufacturers had failed. Numsa stated that the employers’ offer was not accepted, leaving the deadlock unresolved. A certificate of non-resolution will be issued, indicating a possible upcoming strike. [Business Day<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n SARB governor warns about crypto:<\/strong> South African central bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago says stablecoins and other crypto currencies derivatives may end up usurping African monetary sovereignty if not properly regulated. [CNBC Africa<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Major blow to telecommunication companies:\u00a0<\/strong>Telecommunication companies in South Africa are dealing with theft costs in the millions. MTN reported that, despite a significant reduction in cellphone battery theft, damage to towers and battery theft still cost them R450 million last year, while Vodacom noted in April that vandalism and theft of cellphone tower batteries cost it R100 million a year. [Daily Maverick<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Takealot grey import crackdown<\/strong>:\u00a0Takealot has temporarily suspended certain Samsung Galaxy smartphone listings that customers have reported as unmarked parallel imports with no local warranty protection or Samsung Wallet support. [MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are 5 important things happening in South Africa today, Friday, 31 October 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":829296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-841472","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\/841472","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=841472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841475,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841472\/revisions\/841475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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