{"id":872706,"date":"2026-08-29T07:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=872706"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:27:25","slug":"dstvs-high-tech-fight-against-pirates-and-south-africas-murder-rate-falls-by-5-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/5-things\/872706\/dstvs-high-tech-fight-against-pirates-and-south-africas-murder-rate-falls-by-5-9\/","title":{"rendered":"DSTV’s high-tech fight against pirates and South Africa’s murder rate falls by 5.9%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The rand strengthened slightly in early trading on Friday, as investors awaited remarks from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rand was trading at 15.97 against the dollar on Friday, up 0.2% from its previous close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. dollar index, which measures the currency against several others, such as the euro and yen, was slightly higher at 99.18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Market participants were awaiting Warsh’s speech in Jackson Hole for clues on how he would approach monetary policy, inflation, and recent volatility in the bond market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the speech, Warsh explicitly opposed providing forward guidance on U.S. policy, thereby tempering expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Although the USD-ZAR downside bias remains intact, there are enough developments to make investors think twice about how much stronger they think the rand might go,” ETM Analytics said in a note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like other risk-sensitive currencies, the rand tends to take its cues from global developments, including U.S. economic data and policy signals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa’s 2035 benchmark government bond was steady in early deals, with the yield holding at 8.455%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, 29 August, 2026, the rand was trading at R16.17 to the dollar, R21.88 to the pound, and R18.73 to the euro. Gold is trading at $4,455.43 an ounce, while oil prices were at $88.10 a barrel. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DStv in a high-tech battle against Internet pirates:<\/strong> DStv owner Canal+ has detailed the technology it is using in its fight against streaming piracy in South Africa. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Murder cases fall by 5.9% in first quarter:<\/strong> South Africa’s crime statistics for the first quarter of 2026 show a slight drop in the country’s murder rate. [BusinessDay<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zimbabwe owes South African Airways R942 million:<\/strong> The South African government is looking to reclaim over R942 million owed to South African Airways by Zimbabwe. [DailyInvestor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MK Party names Bongani Baloyi as Johannesburg mayoral candidate:<\/strong> Baloyi was unveiled as the latest candidate in Johannesburg’s mayoral race, alongside MK candidates for five other areas. [EWN<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company educating more South Africans than UCT, Wits, and Stellenbosch:<\/strong> Private education group STADIO now has more students than the individual student populations of the University of Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch University. [BusinessTech<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Saturday, 29 August 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":856903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2093571371540390077","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2189797125174020","_sma_instagram_post_id":"18102179495337383","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[78,24148,20534],"class_list":["post-872706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things","tag-dstv","tag-firoz-cachalia","tag-saa-auditor-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872706","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872709,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872706\/revisions\/872709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}