‘This is the best deal for the state and we have proved that. Whatever the price is, we are paying ourselves’
The alternative payments scheme was suggested two weeks ago by the expert panel set up by Sassa and Black Sash under the supervision of the court.
There is a danger that Sassa, under pressure from political principals, will make hasty decisions, with consequences that could be expensive.
Treasury director general Dondo Mogojane says Sassa jumped the gun by excluding the Post Office from three of the four services Sassa required.
The Sassa and Sapo have been entangled in a lengthy negotiation battle to try work out a deal for the payment and management of social grants.
What Sassa is now proposing is that the bidding process be reopened on November 3 2017.
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.
Falling revenues and financial losses have hit Sapo hard and a return to profitability is not expected before 2018.
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The organisation’s new chief has been called many things but there’s no doubting his determination to turn things around.
Thuli Madonsela has found someone to blame for a nearly R70-million lease rip-off of the Post Office, but not for billions in other suspicious deals.
But the Communication Workers Union has said it is consulting its legal team and plans to go ahead with the march, even it bypasses Sapo buildings.
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What happens when workers are excluded from a system that is supposed to protect them? The post office strike has become a case study.
A new critique of casualisation at the parastatal – and its demise – could have wider lessons for reducing economic inequality in South Africa.
Sapo employees want the government to bail out the troubled postal service and are threatening another strike, leaving mail’s future in the balance.
A group of magazine publishers has complained to Icasa that the post office breached its licence condition, and is looking for a new distributor.
Telecommunications and Postal Minister Siyabonga Cwele says the South African Post Office’s board has resigned with immediate effect.
Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele has allegedly asked the Sapo board to resign or be fired, and a new administrator is waiting in the wings.
There is a mountain of undelivered mail at Sapo, and Parliament’s committee says Sapo was being "evasive" on unpaid salaries in their presentation.
Its goals, management, source of funds and who will cover any losses are key questions that have to be raised.
Angry unionised workers say they have been sidelined and betrayed by their leaders.
Sapo’s chief executive Hlekane has, like his predecessor Lefoka, been suspended amid allegations of corruption, and due to the ongoing strike.
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.
President Jacob Zuma has directed the Special Investigating Unit to look into administrative irregularities at the South African Post Office.
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/ 7 February 2012
Three people, allegedly part of a syndicate involved in the theft of R42-million from the Postbank, have been arrested.
South African Post Office chief executive Motswanesi Lefoka and chief operating officer John Wentzel are being investigated for alleged corruption.
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/ 16 September 2008
Postbank, a business unit of the SA Post Office, may be transformed into a separate company within three years, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The South African Post Office will spend R50-million on mail security in the next financial year, chief executive Motshoanetsi Lefoka said on Tuesday.
The South African Post Office is trying to contact internet retailer Amazon.com for details on why it offers limited shipping facilities to SA.
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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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/ 18 November 2007
Local authorities in Gauteng have been urged to collect rates and taxes owed to them in order to function as viable entities. ”For municipalities to deliver services they should collect the debt owed to them and take care of its employees,” said South African Post Office CEO Totsie Memela-Khambule.
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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.