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Post Office urges Sassa beneficiaries to use supermarket or ATM for payments
The state-owned entity said some of its branches won't have enough money adding however that most Sassa grants for this month have been paid.
Former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes penned an open letter to Communications Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni where he offered to buy a majority stake in the struggling company.
For Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations, the financial health of passenger rail agency, Prasa, the Post Office and the Land Bank is of great concern.
Four suspects were arrested in connection with a post office robbery in De Doorns during which they stole cash and SASSA cards.
It petitions Parliament to end gender-based violence and the exploitation of women and girls.
A sharp increase in the number of social grant recipients after the introduction of the special grant during the pandemic has exacerbated the strained grant payment system.
Last week, Nomkhita Mona was appointed to the position for a five-year term after it was left vacant since 2019.
The minister gave an update on developments in the entities of her department, but she also spoke about the allegations reported in the media.
The Communications Minister has detailed changes to the entities in her portfolio.
It also revealed the Post Office had asked for R4.9 billion to help it through the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Cape Town student was raped and killed at the Post Office in Claremont before her body was dumped in Khayelitsha.
The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies briefe Parliament about its programmes and projects dealing with the coronavirus.
Like many centres nationwide, the queues outside the Orlando Post Office have been extremely long, with some of the beneficiaries arriving in the early hours of the morning to try and be among the first to receive their grants.
Pensioners will also receive R250 more for the next six months as part of government’s COVID-19 relief programme.
Sassa said that about 83% of clients would have received duplicate payments unless the banks were able to reverse this prior to clients accessing their grants.
This after Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams reversed Ntuli's appointment as administrator for the Universal Service Access Agency of South Africa less than a week after she announced it.
Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams appointed Newyear Ntuli administrator for the Usaasa but decided to reverse that appointment when EWN made inquiries about the allegations levelled against him.
The Clareinch Post Office will be converted into a wellness centre after The 19-year-old's death in August sparked nationwide outrage against the high levels of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa.
Uyinene Mrwetynana’s killer confessed to raping her twice before locking her up in a storeroom before murdering her and attempting to destroy the evidence.