5 Important Things Happening in South Africa <\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TV-licence-1024x576.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nStop paying your TV licence<\/strong>: South African households that do not want to pay their TV licence for traditional terrestrial broadcasting services can legally do so by rendering their TV incapable of receiving these services\u2019 signals. The SABC exempts TVs that underwent a “denaturing\u201d from paying TV licences. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nFSCA hits companies with billions in fines<\/strong>: The Financial Sector Conduct Authority levied more than R2.89 billion in fines in the year through 31 March. The largest penalty, in excess of R2 billion, was levied against online trading platform Banxso for deepfake advertising and misappropriation of client funds. [Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBig changes for eBucks<\/strong>: FNB, Clicks and Engen have created a single integrated rewards ecosystem across fuel, retail, and banking. This ecosystem is the first of its kind in South Africa, as it brings three large rewards programmes and brands into a single rewards system. [Daily Investor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nANC deaths<\/strong>: Former Gauteng Premier and COPE founder Mbhazima Shilowa said that members of the ANC are increasingly killing each other for a position as a municipal councillor as the party\u2019s support shrinks. As the ANC’s support base has shrunk, fewer party members can hold political office, resulting in intensified internal battles. [Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nEnd of an era for Eskom<\/strong>: President Cyril Ramaphosa has endorsed a report from the Eskom Restructuring Task Team (ERTT), proposing that South Africa\u2019s transmission network be fully independent of Eskom. The creation of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) is expected to usher in the end of Eskom’s monopoly. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nStop paying your TV licence<\/strong>: South African households that do not want to pay their TV licence for traditional terrestrial broadcasting services can legally do so by rendering their TV incapable of receiving these services\u2019 signals. The SABC exempts TVs that underwent a “denaturing\u201d from paying TV licences. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n FSCA hits companies with billions in fines<\/strong>: The Financial Sector Conduct Authority levied more than R2.89 billion in fines in the year through 31 March. The largest penalty, in excess of R2 billion, was levied against online trading platform Banxso for deepfake advertising and misappropriation of client funds. [Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Big changes for eBucks<\/strong>: FNB, Clicks and Engen have created a single integrated rewards ecosystem across fuel, retail, and banking. This ecosystem is the first of its kind in South Africa, as it brings three large rewards programmes and brands into a single rewards system. [Daily Investor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n ANC deaths<\/strong>: Former Gauteng Premier and COPE founder Mbhazima Shilowa said that members of the ANC are increasingly killing each other for a position as a municipal councillor as the party\u2019s support shrinks. As the ANC’s support base has shrunk, fewer party members can hold political office, resulting in intensified internal battles. [Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n End of an era for Eskom<\/strong>: President Cyril Ramaphosa has endorsed a report from the Eskom Restructuring Task Team (ERTT), proposing that South Africa\u2019s transmission network be fully independent of Eskom. The creation of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) is expected to usher in the end of Eskom’s monopoly. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are 5 important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Saturday, 1 August 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":865343,"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":"2083435334130454722","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2163326884487711","_sma_instagram_post_id":"17908552680273642","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[16632],"class_list":["post-868388","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\/868388","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868393,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868388\/revisions\/868393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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