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US sends final warning to South Africa:<\/strong>\u00a0The US has warned Pretoria against issuing a G20 declaration without its involvement at the upcoming leaders\u2019 summit, attempting to undermine South Africa’s presidency. Ongoing negotiations among G20 members aim to reach a consensus on a declaration. The US has reportedly pressured allies to refrain from agreeing to any declaration, stating it will oppose any decision made in its absence. [Business Day<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n RAF spends R4 million on staff awards party:\u00a0<\/strong>The Road Accident Fund (RAF) spent nearly R4 million on its 2025 awards evening, featuring a performance by Mi Casa and award trophies, despite having over 255,000 outstanding claims from accident victims. The RAF’s liabilities reached R370 billion last year and are projected to rise to almost R423 billion by 2027, making it a “significant fiscal risk.” [News24<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Electricity price increases coming:<\/strong>\u00a0The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has called all licensed municipalities and private electricity providers to submit their tariff applications for 2026 by 12 December 2025, along with cost-of-supply studies. Non-compliance will prevent municipalities from implementing tariff adjustments in the 2026\/27 financial year. [MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inflation ticks up:<\/strong> Annual consumer inflation edged higher to 3.6% in October, up from 3.4% in September, in line with market expectations. This is the highest inflation print since September 2024, when the rate was 3.8%. The consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.1% month-on-month in October\u00a02025. [BusinessTech<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Relief for residents in South Africa’s capital:<\/strong>\u00a0The City of Tshwane faced another setback in court when the suspension of a previous order, which deemed its controversial cleaning levy unlawful, was lifted while it appeals the decision. As a result, Tshwane can no longer charge residents the R194-per-month cleaning levy and must refund residents who have already paid it. [Moneyweb<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are 5 important things happening in South Africa today, Thursday, 20 November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":830784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-843898","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\/843898","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=843898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843904,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843898\/revisions\/843904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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