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Thinkers: Trevor Tambo (left) and Lunga Williams. Photo: Brian Sokutu

A stamp for Mama Winnie

Former aides reveal how she became the first South African to be honoured on a postage stamp while still alive, and how the 2017 tribute reached her in hospital before her death

Over the past decade, the South African Post Office has had significant business problems, including debt to creditors and poor revenue collection.

Mid-term budget: ‘Tough love’ for Post Office, which faces liquidation

The treasury also did not allocate new funds to other struggling state-owned entities such as Denel, Transnet, the Land Bank and the South African National Roads Agency

Many of the post offices around the country are run
down and offer fewer services than previously. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Please Mr Postman, deliver the cheque

In this financial year’s budget, Parliament did not allocate funding for the South African Post Office, which is waiting for a R3.8 billion tranche

Eskom is awaiting government approval to get the 100 megawatts of power offered by the Mozambique energy ministry in July.

The Fiscal Cliff | Eskom: The fiscal monster the treasury can’t vanquish

Among state-owned entities, the beleaguered power utility is far and away the biggest risk to the public purse

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. (Photo: Mlungisi Louw/Gallo Images)

Public purse sees tail end of mining tailwind

Mining windfall helped SA’s financial position, but lower revenues and additional spending will delay the end of fiscal consolidation

Your cheque is in the mail: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has welcomed a court decision to place the South African Post Office in business rescue. Photo: Made Nagi/AFP

SOEs going into business rescue a sign of governance failure

It highlights that changes need to be made in their operation, experts say

Run to the ground, Post Office and SABC fight for relevance

Having struggled to keep up with changing markets, the two entities under the department of communications are in states of financial disrepair

Over the past decade, the South African Post Office has had significant business problems, including debt to creditors and poor revenue collection.

South Africa needs a ‘Post Office of Tomorrow’

To become profitable, the state-owned entity requires an expanded mandate that allows it to venture into e-commerce services

Aside from mounting a financial rescue operation at Eskom, the government will give another R1 billion to SAA before the end of the current financial year towards paying off the airline’s historical debt.
 (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Godongwana gives SAA another billion rand

The money will go towards clearing the airline’s historic debt and may not be the last downpayment

Disruption: Soweto residents protest in front of Maponya Mall against the wave of violence and looting that affected Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in July last year. Photo: Luca Sola/AFP

Can the private sector help to fix ‘a fragile state’?

Privatisation stands to deepen inequalities. But some experts say collaboration between business and government can work in everyone’s interest

Commuters drive in the city centre of Ouagadougou on January 23, 2022. – Gunfire broke out at several army barracks in Burkina Faso on Sunday, prompting the government to deny that the military had seized control of the notoriously volatile Sahel state. “Since 1 am, gunfire has been heard here in Gounghin coming from the Sangoule Lamizana camp,” a soldier in a district on the western suburbs of the capital Ouagadougou said. (Photo by Olympia DE MAISMONT / AFP)

Coup season in the Sahel raises uncomfortable questions

Beset by political instability, the region is also the canary in the climate change coal mine

The expansion of social grants has been one of the most significant redistributive measures in democratic South Africa. Grants now support millions of children, older persons, and people with disabilities.
 (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

How to apply for the Covid-19 R350 grant

Asylum seekers with valid permits and caregivers will now also be allowed to apply for the reinstituted social relief of distress grant

Over the past decade, the South African Post Office has had significant business problems, including debt to creditors and poor revenue collection.

Post Office owes R842m to worker pension fund and medical aid

There is growing concern about a possible liquidation of the entity should it not be repurposed

Attached: About 5 000 satellite dishes and decoders will be held until the alleged outstanding rent is paid.  (Madelene Cronjé)

Firm attaches Post Office’s digital migration decoders

Thousands of decoders and satellites gather dust at a Polokwane property while the embattled Post Office struggles to settle alleged rental arrears

Pillar to post office

If President Cyril Ramaphosa’s crackdown on corruption is to succeed, new rules for lobbying and tenders need to be implemented

(Reuters)

Covid-19 lockdown pushes Wits University to offer online learning

The university plans to teach online as South Africa’s lockdown continues, and is offering zero-rated data for its teaching sites, as well as computing devices for students

The Net1 subsidiary’s director, Nunthakumarin Pillay, says in his affidavit that hundreds of thousands of social grant beneficiaries had opted to receive their social assistance in EPE accounts. (Gallo)

Net1 subsidiary goes to court to compel Sassa to pay grants into its accounts

Moneyline claims that the South African Social Security Agency has moved beneficiaries to the South African Post Office against their will

Bathabile Dlamini slapped with court costs, possible perjury probe (Photo Archive)

Bathabile Dlamini slapped with court costs, possible perjury probe

The Constitutional Court has ruled that Bathabile Dlamini is personally liable for 20% of costs of last year’s Sassa debacle

Criticised: The new social development minister, Susan Shabangu (above), brought in Benedicta Monama despite her poor track record in the public sector. (David Harrison)

Sassa: The more things change …

The social development minister is following in the footsteps of her predecessor

(John McCann/M&G)

Talk of state spending rings hollow

Rand jitters question the state’s ability to provide an economic stimulus and to continue to bail out parastatals