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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSouth African company being sued in Texas:\u00a0<\/strong>Vodacom-owned IoT.nxt\u2019s U.S. subsidiary is being sued in the Eastern District of Texas for allegedly failing to honour the compensation agreements of two executives headhunted by the company. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ramaphosa is playing with fire:\u00a0<\/strong>Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s government is playing with fire by disregarding the US conditions for normalising relations. In March 2026, US Ambassador to South Africa Leo Brent Bozell III stressed the need for compliance, stating that the US aims to boost investment in South Africa. He expressed concern over South Africa\u2019s growing ties with countries like Iran and China, stating that the government cannot claim non-alignment while engaging with America’s adversaries. [Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Severe weather conditions confirmed for South Africa:<\/strong>\u00a0South Africa is likely to face significant weather-related risks over the coming months after major international climate agencies confirmed that an El Ni\u00f1o weather phenomenon has developed. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Social media will be monitored on 30 June:<\/strong>\u00a0South African police have noted that authorities will closely monitor social media platforms for threats, hate speech, and any attempts to incite violence during next week’s anti-illegal immigration demonstrations. [EWN<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pesticide warning:<\/strong>\u00a0The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) found pesticide residues in 86% of sampled commonly consumed foods, including staples like maize meal, bread, and flour, as well as breakfast cereals, fresh produce, and foods for infants and young children. [Mail & Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Friday, 26 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":864709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-864707","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\/864707","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=864707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864710,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864707\/revisions\/864710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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