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Over a hundred people gathered outside the Clareinch post office in Claremont, Cape Town where, four years ago, on 26 August, UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana was raped and murdered. Photos: Qaqamba Falithenjwa
GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Uyinene Mrwetyana’s family want Post Office transformed into “a place of healing”

Hundreds marched to the Clareinch post office in Claremont to commemorate four years since her rape and murder

  • Qaqamba Falithenjwa
2 min read
The official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), said it does not support a permanent expansion of the grant system at this stage.
BASIC INCOME GRANT

Renewed calls for South Africa to have a basic income grant

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…

  • Nation Nyoka
10 min read
FINANCIAL SERVICES

Q&A Sessions: ‘Post Office was a journey of faith’

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…

  • Nicolene de Wee
7 min read
Ke fila bad: Veronicah Sehoke says that if the special Covid-19 grant is not reinstated, the youth must be provided with learnerships or other alternatives. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy
C19 PEOPLE S COALITION

R350 a month: Inside the lives of special grant recipients

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

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
9 min read
Mail maze: The South African Post Office says that only a tiny percentage of its 2-million daily parcels go missing or are damaged. (Oupa Nkosi)
ARAMEX

Competitors take on the post office

Blamed by many South Africans for offering a shoddy service, the embattled institution faces financial strain and serious competition

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
6 min read
De Lille’s case to have the clause reviewed was meant to be heard on Friday
BATHABILE DLAMINI

CPS is now claiming over R1-billion from Sassa

This revelation is contained in documents and correspondence between the embattled SA Social Security Agency and the Net1 subsidiary.

  • Athandiwe Saba
5 min read
Motorists can expect relief at the fuel pumps in October, with the price of all grades of petrol and diesel set to decrease from Wednesday
LETTERS

Letters to the editor: August 28 to September 1 2017

Readers write in about health equity, the Post Office, and Krotoa

  • Letters
5 min read
DA members at the Constitutional Court during a hearing on Black Sash’s request for Sassa to use Cash Paymaster Services until a new grant payment system was in place.
BATHABILE DLAMINI

MPs accuse Sassa of ‘delay tactics’

Come March 2018, the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) may find itself in a "mad dash" to secure grant payments once again.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
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BATHABILE DLAMINI

Concourt judgement disproves Dlamini’s assertions of ‘media-created’ grants anxiety

Although the Teflon minister remains unscathed, misleading Parliament may come back to bite her.

  • Phillip De Wet
6 min read
Allegations include improper and unlawful conduct by Sapo officials.
POST OFFICE

Postbank could speed up change

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.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
Women are at the bottom of the pile when policies are designed without them. Photo: File
BATHABILE DLAMINI

Dlamini rejects Gordhan’s social grants proposal

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.

  • Tshidi Madia
4 min read
ESKOM

Barking up a lot of weird trees in 2015

We caught up with some local celebrities and politicians to find out what they hope to achieve in the Year of the Goat.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
LABOUR STRIKE

Post office strike continues as union talks collapse

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.

  • Thuletho Zwane
4 min read
In pursuit of wealth: Mafika Sihlali
MAFIKA SIHLALI

Mafika Sihlali: A man ‘in a hurry’ to succeed

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.

  • Phillip De Wet
4 min read
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

ConCourt hearing could change methods of foreclosure

A mix-up at the Post Office might change the way companies foreclose on those in debt, following a Constitutional Court hearing in Johannesburg.

  • Jenni Evans
4 min read
MPUMALANGA

Wheeling in the dead to claim pension

Three women allegedly strapped a dead man to a wheelchair to claim his pension money from the Post Office.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

State infringed Zuma’s rights, court told

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…

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
ANDREW TOPPER

Corrupt tender costs Post Office R60m

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…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT

Post Office reports trading profit up 40%

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.…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CAPE TOWN

Dept of Home Affairs ditches Post Office over inefficiency

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…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read