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Eskom hit<\/strong> with massive wage demands:\u00a0<\/strong>Eskom’s financial gains in 2025 are threatened by worker demands for a 15% pay increase, compared to the official inflation rate of 3.6%. Eskom has proposed a 3.5% increase. A 15% raise would raise average salaries by R12,900 to R98,900 a month, significantly impacting the company’s finances. [Business Day<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n One province at risk of going bankrupt:<\/strong>\u00a0Delays in completing ever-increasingly expensive infrastructure projects and shoddy work by contractors risk bankrupting the Mpumalanga province. This is the warning from a joint delegation of Mpumalanga permanent delegates to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) and Members of the Provincial Legislature (MPLs). [Newsday<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n US hit back at South Africa:<\/strong>\u00a0President Donald Trump said that he would not invite South Africa to participate in next year\u2019s G-20 summit in Miami and that he planned to \u201cstop all payments and subsidies\u201d to the country, as relations between Washington and Pretoria continue to deteriorate. [BusinessTech<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second Walmart to launch:<\/strong>\u00a0Walmart will open its second store in South Africa at Fourways Mall in Johannesburg on Friday, 28 November 2025. The store will open its doors to the public at 08:00 on Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by store manager Lunghani Lincoln Mathebula. [MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over 10 million South Africans is serious trouble:<\/strong>\u00a0The National Credit Regulator (NCR) has revealed that more than 10 million South Africans are over-indebted. It added that 36% of the population have three to five credit accounts in arrears. [EWN<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are 5 important things happening in South Africa today, Thursday, 27 November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":763971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-844719","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\/844719","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=844719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844730,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844719\/revisions\/844730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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