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Flights suspended<\/strong>: The conflicts in the Middle East have led to the airspace in several countries being closed, including the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.<\/span> Emirates and Qatar Airways flights said that they will not be departing from South Africa until further notice. Air France said that it also suspended flights into Dubai and Riyadh. [BusinessTech<\/a>;EWN<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trade deal hopes<\/strong>: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special adviser on investments, Alistair Ruiters, will travel to the USA next week to continue trade negotiations between the two countries. This comes shortly after US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court, which imposed a 30% tariff on South Africa. [City Press<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iran’s leader killed<\/strong>: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in his office on Saturday morning following air strikes that have plunged the Middle East into chaos. Trump called Khamenei “one of the most evil people in History.” [BBC<\/a>] <\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister Hacked<\/strong>: Minister Dean Macpherson and DG Sifiso Mdakane are said to be under surveillance as part of their plan to curb corrup<\/span>tion at the Department of Public Works & Infrastructure. Sources told the Sunday Times that the Minister and DG were informed that they may have been hacked after a sensitive communication between them appeared online. [Sunday Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Massive data centre on the cards<\/strong>: Korea South Power Consortium is looking to build a new AI data centre in Amanzimtoti, eThekwini, promising up to R159 billion in capital investment. While the proposal sounds exciting, the DA is concerned about the lack of information regarding the deal. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Sunday, 1 March 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":825142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[]"},"categories":[20398],"tags":[16632],"class_list":["post-852581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things","tag-5-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852581","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852582,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852581\/revisions\/852582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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