{"id":108283,"date":"2018-01-19T00:11:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T22:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-five-things-making-headlines-in-south-africa-today\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T00:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T22:11:47","slug":"sa-news-five-things-making-headlines-in-south-africa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-five-things-making-headlines-in-south-africa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Five things making headlines in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=70E843089B0C4C108F23850672B78A6E&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.moneyweb.co.za%2fnews%2fcompanies-and-deals%2ffive-things-making-headlines-in-south-africa-today%2f&#038;c=14425149450646570447&#038;mkt=en-us\">Five things making headlines in South Africa today<\/a>: The South African Reserve Bank\u2019s (Sarb\u2019s) Monetary Policy Committee is due to announce its interest rates decision today. Economists are predicting that rates are most likely to be kept on hold. The rand strengthened in November last year, after Cyril &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=70E843089B0C4C108F23850672B78A6E&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.moneyweb.co.za%2fnews%2fcompanies-and-deals%2ffive-things-making-headlines-in-south-africa-today%2f&#038;c=14425149450646570447&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=70E843089B0C4C108F23850672B78A6E&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fprecisionresearchandconsulting.com%2f2018%2f01%2fh-m-stores-trashed-in-south-africa-over-coolest-monkey%2f&#038;c=7723973079221186266&#038;mkt=en-us\">H&#038;M stores trashed in South Africa over &#8216;coolest monkey&#8217; hoodie<\/a>: In the ad, a young black child is pictured wearing a hoodie with the slogan &#8220;Coolest monkey in the jungle&#8221;. Apparently, the statement had triggered an outrage on social media and a radical group known as the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). Shivambu posted &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=70E843089B0C4C108F23850672B78A6E&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fprecisionresearchandconsulting.com%2f2018%2f01%2fh-m-stores-trashed-in-south-africa-over-coolest-monkey%2f&#038;c=7723973079221186266&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=70E843089B0C4C108F23850672B78A6E&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.dazeddigital.com%2fpolitics%2farticle%2f38662%2f1%2fa-look-at-the-rebel-political-group-who-trashed-hm-s-south-africa-stores&#038;c=9211975923333741372&#038;mkt=en-us\">A look at the rebel political group who trashed H&#038;M\u2019s South Africa stores<\/a>: The Economic Freedom Fighters, an opposition party in South Africa, stormed and ransacked several H&#038;M stores across South Africa this past Saturday (January 13). The protest was organised by the EFF in response to the H&#038;M ad featuring a black child wearing &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=70E843089B0C4C108F23850672B78A6E&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.dazeddigital.com%2fpolitics%2farticle%2f38662%2f1%2fa-look-at-the-rebel-political-group-who-trashed-hm-s-south-africa-stores&#038;c=9211975923333741372&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five things making headlines in South Africa today: The South African Reserve Bank\u2019s (Sarb\u2019s) Monetary Policy Committee is due to announce its interest rates decision today. Economists are predicting that rates are most likely to be kept on hold. The rand strengthened in November last year, after Cyril &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews H&#038;M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[428,5419,20608,8159,830,3576,6784,4330],"class_list":{"0":"post-108283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-five","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-making","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-south","13":"tag-things","14":"tag-today","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}