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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nChanges to speed limits:<\/strong>\u00a0The AARTO system was introduced on 1 July 2026 in 62 municipalities, implementing new fines for speeding. Under this system, there is a 10km\/h tolerance for speed limits, which will soon increase to 15km\/h before motorists receive a demerit point on their licence instead of a fine. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eskom’s plan will leave South Africans poorer:<\/strong>\u00a0An economic study by Nersa indicated that approximately 41,000 jobs will be lost, and households will face significant financial strain, amounting to nearly R10 billion, over the next two years due to Eskom\u2019s R54 billion tariff adjustment. [Business Day<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diesel price pain:<\/strong>\u00a0Chief investment strategist at Symmetry, Izak Odendaal, has warned that diesel prices are likely to climb in August, despite the small over-recovery currently reflected in the Central Energy Fund\u2019s data. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n End of spam calls questioned:<\/strong>\u00a0New regulations require all direct marketers to register with the National Consumer Commission\u2019s opt-out registry and to provide consumers with stronger protections against unsolicited marketing. However, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr\u2019s (CDH) Tim Fletcher and Kgatlhiso Mofokeng warned that the effectiveness of these regulations in robust enforcement and in tackling spam calls from outside South Africa is in question. [Daily Investor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Big problem for South Africa’s best-run city:<\/strong>\u00a0Service providers in Cape Town are increasingly relying on police escorts to operate in areas with high rates of violent crime. In the 2025 financial year, police escorts were requested an average of 275 times per month, totalling 3,300 cases. [Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Friday, 17 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":858517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2077989941875802484","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-866579","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\/866579","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=866579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866582,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866579\/revisions\/866582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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