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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nNew R4.2 billion bridge opens:\u00a0<\/strong>South Africa and Lesotho have opened the Senqu Bridge, reaching an important milestone for Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). The new bridge cost roughly R4.2 billion to build and involved construction crews from both countries supporting the LHWP. [TopAuto<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plan to punish South Africa backfires<\/strong>: The imposition of tariffs on South African exports to the United States has not resulted in a decline in the value of local products sent to the world\u2019s largest consumer market. Instead, the value of South African exports to the United States has risen by 11% in nominal terms since the tariffs came into effect in August 2025, according to data from Codera Analytics. [Daily Investor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Best news for South Africa in four years<\/strong>: South Africa posted its largest current-account surplus in four years in the first quarter as the value of gold exports surged and imports dropped. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n ANC government has 100% failure rate on economic targets: <\/strong>The ANC government has not met any of its economic targets laid out in South Africa\u2019s National Development Plan 2030. In fact, all the indicators, including economic growth, unemployment, and fixed capital formation, are now far worse than when the plan was unveiled.\u00a0<\/strong>[Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Post Office wants to terminate its business rescue:\u00a0<\/strong>The South African Post Office\u2019s (SAPO\u2019s) business rescue practitioners (BRPs) have revealed plans to finalise the entity\u2019s Termination Application to exit business rescue in June 2026. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Friday, 12 June 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":863456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-863455","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\/863455","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=863455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863462,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863455\/revisions\/863462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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