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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nEskom wage debate<\/strong>: Eskom and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) are heading to the CCMA over the latest wage hike. NUMSA rejected Eskom’s annual salary offer of 7% over the next three years, arguing that Eskom had budgeted for a 9% increase. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSouth African rugby is technically insolvent<\/strong>: While the Springboks continue to dominate the world rugby stage, SARU remains technically insolvent. By the end of 2025, SARU\u2019s liabilities had exceeded its assets by R84 million at a group level and R113 million at a union level. It also reported a R32.3 million loss in 2025. Former Sun International CEO David Coutts-Trotter said that SARU has now tried to align its ticket prices with international standards but failed to understand the differences in wealth among other rugby nations. [Daily Investor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTwo-year DNA backlog:<\/strong> The South African Police Service is facing a serious backlog of DNA evidence processed by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL). A whistleblower has alleged<\/a>\u00a0that the FSL\u2019s backlog exceeded 50,000 crime scene samples and 250,000 reference indexes, creating long delays for an essential part of crime fighting. [Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nGun license issue<\/strong>: Many gun owners in South Africa are not renewing their licences, which poses a massive risk to public safety. Gun Free South Africa noted that applications have dropped 74% since 2021 and 2022, meaning that a growing number of gun owners are in possession of illegally owned firearms. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTop cop arrested again:<\/strong> Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi has been arrested in connection with an alleged R14.9 million precious stones heist in Killarney in 2023. He already has two pending cases in separate courts [eNCA<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Sunday, 19 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":859376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2078723777660150013","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[16632],"class_list":["post-866766","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\/866766","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866769,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866766\/revisions\/866769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nEskom wage debate<\/strong>: Eskom and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) are heading to the CCMA over the latest wage hike. NUMSA rejected Eskom’s annual salary offer of 7% over the next three years, arguing that Eskom had budgeted for a 9% increase. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n South African rugby is technically insolvent<\/strong>: While the Springboks continue to dominate the world rugby stage, SARU remains technically insolvent. By the end of 2025, SARU\u2019s liabilities had exceeded its assets by R84 million at a group level and R113 million at a union level. It also reported a R32.3 million loss in 2025. Former Sun International CEO David Coutts-Trotter said that SARU has now tried to align its ticket prices with international standards but failed to understand the differences in wealth among other rugby nations. [Daily Investor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two-year DNA backlog:<\/strong> The South African Police Service is facing a serious backlog of DNA evidence processed by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL). A whistleblower has alleged<\/a>\u00a0that the FSL\u2019s backlog exceeded 50,000 crime scene samples and 250,000 reference indexes, creating long delays for an essential part of crime fighting. [Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gun license issue<\/strong>: Many gun owners in South Africa are not renewing their licences, which poses a massive risk to public safety. Gun Free South Africa noted that applications have dropped 74% since 2021 and 2022, meaning that a growing number of gun owners are in possession of illegally owned firearms. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Top cop arrested again:<\/strong> Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi has been arrested in connection with an alleged R14.9 million precious stones heist in Killarney in 2023. He already has two pending cases in separate courts [eNCA<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Sunday, 19 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":859376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2078723777660150013","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[16632],"class_list":["post-866766","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\/866766","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866769,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866766\/revisions\/866769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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