Hundreds marched to the Clareinch post office in Claremont to commemorate four years since her rape and murder
Human rights organisations are advocating a state safety net for the millions of South Africans who have been left hungry after the R350 social relief of distress grant was discontinued on 30 April
Mark Barnes, the former South African Post Office chief executive, talks to Nicolene de Wee about the highlights of his 30-year career in finance and markets. The 64-year-old father of six discusses the country’s financial services sector, his art collection and his love for trout fishing
The Covid-19 relief grant helped millions of South Africans, but it ended in January. The M&G spoke to unemployed youth who found the money helpful
Blamed by many South Africans for offering a shoddy service, the embattled institution faces financial strain and serious competition
This revelation is contained in documents and correspondence between the embattled SA Social Security Agency and the Net1 subsidiary.
Readers write in about health equity, the Post Office, and Krotoa
Come March 2018, the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) may find itself in a "mad dash" to secure grant payments once again.
The SA Post Office is embarking on what it hopes will be the final stretch before becoming the Postbank, a fully fledged banking service provider.
Although the Teflon minister remains unscathed, misleading Parliament may come back to bite her.
The social development minister has 43 days to ensure the 17-million people get their money. She has had since 2014 to sort out the problem.
We caught up with some local celebrities and politicians to find out what they hope to achieve in the Year of the Goat.
As letters and parcels continue to pile up in post offices across South Africa, there appears to be no end in sight to the long-running strike.
Despite the movement restrictions imposed by the fact he is out on bail, Mafika Sihlali is a hard man to find. Phillip de Wet reports.
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/ 14 February 2012
A mix-up at the Post Office might change the way companies foreclose on those in debt, following a Constitutional Court hearing in Johannesburg.
Three women allegedly strapped a dead man to a wheelchair to claim his pension money from the Post Office.
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The state’s attempts to obtain documents from Mauritius infringed African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s right to a fair trial, the Constitutional Court heard on Wednesday. Zuma’s advocate said that allowing the documents from Mauritius to be ”imported” would ”negate” the Zuma legal team’s ability to challenge the documents in court.
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/ 14 December 2007
The South African Post Office has been ordered to pay R60-million in damages due to contamination of a tender, according to Business Report on Friday. Judge Willie Hartzenberg found the Post Office had confirmed a corrupt tender in 2002 despite the fact that senior managers had been made aware of flaws in the process.
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/ 13 November 2007
Members of Parliament heard on Tuesday that the South African Post Office has made 40% more trading profit in the first six months of this financial year than it did last year. Chief financial officer Nick Buick said that the six months’ net profit for this year was R210-million, 20% above last year’s interim result.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Home Affairs has ditched the South African Post Office (Sapo) as the distributor of its documents because of inefficiency. Initially, the Sapo contract with the department to deliver documents went very well, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told a media briefing at Parliament on Friday.
Hamas paid Gaza security officials on Friday by dishing out cash from suitcases rather than using banks, as Israel tightened a clampdown on the Palestinian territory. An official said the group planned to circumvent banks by paying salaries to about 20 000 security forces and civil servants in cash.
A draft post-forensic review has cleared the current acting chief executive of the South African Post Office and its financial director of any wrongdoing, the board of the parastatal said on Wednesday. Acting chief executive officer Motshoanetsi Lefoka and chief financial director Nick Buick were implicated in an initial investigation.
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/ 25 September 1987
The union has compiled a 14-page dossier listing a range of examples to support its accusations.