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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMoney flooding into South Africa:<\/strong> The JSE all-share index posted its steepest climb in more than six years as markets breathed a sigh of relief after the US and Iran’s last-minute two-week ceasefire announced on Wednesday, 8 April. [BusinessDay<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Warning from Dawie Roodt: <\/strong>Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt warned that the South African government has surpassed the economy’s tax burden limit, moving too far along the Laffer Curve. As a result, increases in personal income tax (PIT) and corporate income tax (CIT) are expected to reduce revenue rather than increase it. [DailyInvestor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cape Town homeowners advised to look beyond the city’s relief claims: <\/strong>Cape Town homeowners are advised to assess the city\u2019s claims of reduced municipal rates under the new budget. The city indicated that most households will either pay less or see no change in tariffs, with about 60% of properties benefiting from a revised rates calculation to alleviate the impact of rising property valuations. [EWN<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Standard Bank data breach:<\/strong>\u00a0Standard Bank says it has been impacted by an incident in which personal information of clients was subject to \u201cunauthorised access\u201d on 23 March 2026. The bank said the breach did not affect its banking systems, and external experts are now investigating. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good news for Amazon customers:<\/strong>\u00a0Amazon will not charge a surcharge to South African third-party merchants using its logistics fulfilment service, despite rising fuel prices. However, a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge will be applied to sellers in the US and Canada starting April 17, 2026. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are five important things happening in South Africa on Thursday, 9 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":856374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,16632],"class_list":["post-856364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things","tag-5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today","tag-5-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856364","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\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856377,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856364\/revisions\/856377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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