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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Company forced to change its name:\u00a0<\/strong>Sun International has won an order requiring Times Square Hotel to change its name due to confusion with Sun’s Time Square trademark, according to the Companies Tribunal. [Business Day<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n 60 schools shut down:\u00a0<\/strong>More than 60 illegally operating schools have been shut down in Gauteng since January as the provincial education department steps up efforts to protect learners from unregistered schools. [Daily Investor<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uber is illegal:\u00a0<\/strong>South Africa\u2019s largest e-hailing operator, Uber, has been operating locally without a legally required registration certificate for nearly six months. The country\u2019s ride-hailing sector operated in a legal grey area for over a decade until the National Land Transport Amendment Act (NLTA) took effect on 12 September 2025. [Mybroadband<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Changes to medical aid on the cards:\u00a0<\/strong>The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has begun its critical review of Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) for medical aids in South Africa, aiming to transform them into a new Primary Healthcare (PHC) package. [BusinessTech<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ford sends a warning to the government:<\/strong>\u00a0Ford Africa’s Neale Hill has warned that local manufacturers need fair policies to compete with importers. He advocates for support programmes that protect local investments and promote job creation. [Engineering News<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Tuesday, 15 September 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":830278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2099733467864908274","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2205950180225381","_sma_instagram_post_id":"18118131241981893","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-875430","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\/875430","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=875430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875440,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875430\/revisions\/875440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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