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Business rescue team says Post Office turnaround on track
Business rescue team tells Parliament the South African Post Office is seeing its first financial recovery in over a decade.…
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Uyinene Mrwetyana’s mom says her daughter will always be remembered as a fighter
Uyinene Mrwetyana’s mother says her late daughter will always be remembered as a fighter. Noma Mrwetyana was speaking on the…
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Retrenched Post Office workers protest outside headquarters
Workers retrenched by the Post Office recently staged a picket outside its offices in Pretoria Central demanding severance packages they…
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Retrenched Post Office workers to picket over pension funds and UIF
Dozens of retrenched Post Office workers are expected to protest at the state-owned enterprise’s headquarters in Tshwane on Friday over…
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27 Post Office branches closed in Limpopo
Twenty-seven Post Office branches in Limpopo have closed. Provincial Secretary of the Communication Workers’ Union Amos Tshabalala says the Polokwane…
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Paramedic arrested moments after daring robbery, theft of money at Post Office
Police at Tonga, in Mpumalanga, have arrested two suspects, aged 26 and 39, moments after a business robbery was committed…
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COSATU condemns alleged abuse of post office employees
COSATU has condemned the alleged neglect and abuse of Post Office workers. It says it’s heartbreaking that employees might be…
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Post Office employees arrested for fraud & money laundering Sassa funds
Four employees of the Post Office in the Free State appeared in the Tseseng Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges…
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Six thousand Post Office employees to be retrenched
Business rescue practitioner Anoosh Rooplal has confirmed that they are going ahead with retrenchments of almost 6 000 employees at…
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Limpopo burial societies unable to access Post Office savings
Some Limpopo-based burial societies that invested with the Post Office are unable to withdraw their money. The burial societies’ leaders…
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Post Office closes 80 branches in 4 months
The South African Post Office (Sapo) had closed 80 branches across the country in the past four months, Communications and…
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Post Office has failed to pay into employees’ retirement fund for 3 years
Each month, 7.5% of workers’ salaries are deducted by the Post Office as a contribution to the Post Office Retirement…
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Opposition parties want Sapo privatised, say ANC cadre deployment destroyed it
Opposition parties have called for the privatization of the South African Post Office (Sapo), saying that African National Congress (ANC)…
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Another case of fraud opened against Post Office
A 66-year-old woman from Jan Kempdorp in the Northern Cape has opened a case of fraud with the South African…
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3 female Post Office employees shot dead
Eastern Cape police are on the hunt for suspects who gunned down three female Post Office employees on Monday afternoon.…
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Kimberley family allegedly scammed by Post Office syndicate
A family in Barkly West near Kimberley in the Northern Cape has allegedly fallen prey to a suspected Post Office…
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Post Office continues to act in the interests of stakeholders
The South African Post Office says the debt for which it was placed in provisional liquidation is paid and it…
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CEO: SA Post Office must cut at least 3 000 jobs to stay sustainable
South African Post Office CEO Nomkhita Mona said that about 1,700 employees had left the parastatal by taking voluntary severance…
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6,000 SAPO employees to be retrenched
The Communications Workers Union is slamming a Post Office decision to cut about 6,000 jobs. It says it hasn’t been…
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Cosatu concerned about Sapo’s plan to retrench 6 000 employees
Cosatu says it’s concerned about the South African Post Office (Sapo)’s plan to retrench almost 6,000 employees. The cash-strapped postal…
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Post Office banking services restored
The Post Office says all its banking services are back online and fully operational. This follows a system glitch that…
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Senior citizens apprehend robbers in post office while waiting for pensions
Two armed robbers were apprehended by a group of about 200 pensioners in Durban on Wednesday. The attempted robbery occurred…
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9 Dutywa Post Office employees rescued after hostage drama
Nine Post Office employees were rescued unharmed in Dutywa in the Eastern Cape, following a hostage situation. Armed robbers stormed…
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Ex- University of Cape Town student named on rapist list wins R300 000 in damages
A former University of Cape Town (UCT) student has won a damages claim against a woman who added his name…
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Increase in violent crime at SA post offices
A spike in violent crimes at post offices has left staff and customers fearing for their safety. In data revealed…
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SA Post Office to no longer pay R350 grants at branches
The South African Post Office has announced it will no longer pay the R350 social relief of distress grant through…
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Post Office urges Sassa beneficiaries to use supermarket or ATM for payments
The Post Office said South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) beneficiaries who usually use the postal service for their transactions…
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Post Office racks up R304 million debt with landlords
The South African Post Office (Sapo) has run up a debt of around R305 million in unpaid rentals and utility…
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Post Office relaunches airmail to US and Australia
The South African Post Office (SAPO) has relaunched a regular Air Mail service to the US and Australia. The postal…
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Advocacy group calls on Social Development to save SAPO
Advocacy group Black Sash is calling on the Social Development Department to urgently intervene as various Post Office branches have…
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Post Office asks government for R8bn bailout
The Post Office has asked government for an R8-billion bailout. A few years ago the Post Office was awarded R2.9-billion…
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This is why South Africans are not collecting their packages at the Post Office
The South African Post Office (SAPO) says it is launching a campaign to make sure that clients collect their parcels.…
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SA Post Office wants R8 billion from government
The South African Post Office (SAPO) is in survival mode and has asked the government for R8.16 billion to save…
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Post Office asks for bailout to pay medical aid and pensions
Medical aid for Post Office employees could be suspended unless the struggling company comes up with a plan to resume…
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Post Office workers could forfeit medical aid as millions owed to scheme
Medical aid for Post Office employees could be suspended unless the struggling company comes up with a plan to resume…
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Serious trouble at the Post Office
Around 15,000 South African Post Office (Sapo) workers could lose their medical aid cover with Medipos from October because their…
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Post Office warns R350 grant recipients not to pay for queue spots
The South African Post Office (Sapo) has issued a warning to beneficiaries of the R350 Covid-19 Special Relief of Distress…
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Sassa records over 11 million applications for the R350 COVID grant
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has recorded more than 11 million applications for the COVID-19 social relief of…
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Calls for end to GBV: Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation marches to Parliament
This week marked two years since University of Cape Town (UCT) student Uyinene Mrwetyana was raped and murdered by Post…
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Calls for gender-based violence council
With the recent spate of femicide, many women continue to live in fear in South Africa. On Saturday, a march…
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GBV, one of South Africa’s ill-treated pandemics, not letting up even on women’s month
Gender-based violence has not let up, even as the country marks women’s month. Women continue to suffer at the hands…
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This is how SA Post Office plans to take over online shopping deliveries
The South African Post Office (Sapo) wants courier companies to pay it an “agency fee” for the privilege of delivering…
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Post Office to block small parcels from being delivered by couriers in South Africa
South Africa Post Office CEO Nomkhita Mona said by law, they are the only institution that is allowed to deliver…
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Beware of new Post Office parcel scam
The South African Post Office (Sapo) has issued a warning about a new scam that tries to convince you to…
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SA Post Office demands monopoly on small parcel deliveries
The e-Commerce and small businesses sector could be the biggest losers if the Post Office and Icasa have their way.…
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Beware new SA Post Office customs scam
The SA Post Office has warned against a phishing scam which is being used to defraud South Africans. It said…
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Post Offices closed for not paying rent
Landlords have seized equipment and kicked out the South African Post Office from their malls for not paying rent. According…
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Post Office board member Colleen Makhubele fired
Ministry spokesperson, Mish Molakeng, says there was agreement among other individual board members that Makhubele’s behaviour warranted her departure as…
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Post Office reassures social grant recipients
The Post Office said its financial constraints will not affect the recipients of social grants. This follows reports that the…
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Post Office seeks assistance from the government
The South African Post Office has recorded a loss of nearly R1-billion in the first quarter, almost equalling the total…
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