| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.08.2026 | The Post Office has fixed its books but not its business | The South African Post Office has received an unqualified audit opinion for the first time in six years — and the same audit report warns it may not survive.
The auditor-general found that the Post Office’s consolidated and separate financi... |
| 17.07.2026 | Tap to pay is finally coming to the Post Office | South Africans will soon be able to tap their cards – or their phones – to pay at the Post Office, as the entity rolls out modern payment terminals across 610 branches in a first phase of its branch modernisation programme.
The roll-out bri... |
| 18.06.2026 | Post Office moves to exit business rescue – but with no funded future | The South African Post Office’s joint business rescue practitioners have asked the high court to end the entity’s business rescue, declaring the adopted plan substantially implemented nearly three years after the troubled state-owned compan... |
| 05.06.2026 | Cabinet hands the Post Office a board, but not a bailout | Cabinet has approved a new board for the South African Post Office, removing a key procedural hurdle to the troubled entity applying to exit business rescue – but handing the incoming directors an organisation that the national treasury sti... |
| 13.05.2026 | Malatsi opens door to ‘some’ partial privatisations of SOEs | Communications minister Solly Malatsi
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has placed faster, cheaper and more reliable internet at the centre of the department of communications & digital technologies’ agenda for the year ahead, addin... |
| 13.05.2026 | South Africa: Digital Access Alone Not Enough to Unlock SA's Connectivity Potential - Minister Malatsi | While South Africa has made significant progress in connecting citizens to the internet, Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi says more must be done to unlock the full potential of connectivity.
According to the re... |
| 27.03.2026 | TCS | Anoosh Rooplal on the Post Office’s last stand | The South African Post Office has been in business rescue – a form of bankruptcy protection – since July 2023. Business rescue practitioners Anoosh Rooplal and Juanito Damons have made it clear to parliament that the entity will not survive... |
| 26.03.2026 | Solly Malatsi’s Post Office gamble | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has denied claims by business rescue practitioners (BRPs) for the South African Post Office that his refusal to allow them to sell assets or seek exter... |
| 24.03.2026 | The Post Office is out of options | Post Office business rescue practitioner Anoosh Rooplal. Photo: Tinashe Mazodze
The business rescue practitioners in charge of saving the South African Post Office have on two occasions approached government for permission to sell some of t... |
| 17.03.2026 | Post Office limps on – for now | The South African Post Office’s business rescue practitioners have moved to clarify that no court application has been filed for the liquidation of the entity, after confusion arose during a parliamentary committee meeting last week.
Joint ... |
| 09.02.2026 | Post Office still faces liquidation risk as policy rift widens | Deputy communications minister Mondli Gungubele
Deputy communications minister Mondli Gungubele has publicly distanced himself from minister Solly Malatsi’s decision to strip the South African Post Office of its exclusive right to deliver p... |
| 04.01.2026 | Why Solly Malatsi was right to bury the Post Office monopoly | South Africa has a curious habit of legislating fantasies and then acting surprised when the real economy ignores them. The now-defunct monopoly of the South African Post Office over sub-1kg parcels is a perfect example of this. On paper, t... |
| 18.12.2025 | Malatsi buries Post Office monopoly the market ignored | Communications minister Solly Malatsi last week gazetted amendments to the Postal Services Act that have effectively removed the Post Office’s monopoly on the delivery of sub-1kg parcels.
The rule allowing the Post Office to hang onto its m... |
| 19.11.2025 | Government seeks private sector partners to rebuild broken Post Office | The communications & digital technologies department has issued a wide-ranging request for information (RFI) inviting potential partners to help modernise and commercialise key parts of the South African Post Office (Sapo), including it... |
| 13.10.2025 | 15 months in, Solly Malatsi defends his record as critical ICT reforms stall | Communications minister Solly Malatsi has said he and his department are making steady progress in resolving the “complex issues” within his portfolio but also admitted that some things are taking longer than they should.
Fifteen months aft... |
| 23.09.2025 | Trust deficit deepens in TV migration battle | The department of communications & digital technologies is under fire for allegedly lying to parliament about the state of discussions with broadcasters to resolve the legal impasse over digital television migration.
The department clai... |
| 09.09.2025 | Pressure mounts on Solly Malatsi as SABC stares down ‘risk of collapse’ | Khusela Diko and Solly Malatsi
Pressure is mounting on communications minister Solly Malatsi’s to act to rescue the SABC as it struggles to pay its escalating bills.
On Monday, reporters heard that state-owned signal distributor Sentech, wh... |
| 09.09.2025 | Digital driving licences back on the agenda in South Africa | Parliament has urged transport minister Barbara Creecy to kick off the policymaking process that would pave the way for government to issue digital driving licences.
Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on Tuesday, Democratic Alliance MP... |
| 03.07.2025 | Takealot considering mass hiring of former Post Office staff | Esa Alexander/Reuters
The South African Post Office is in talks with South Africa’s largest online retailer, Takealot Group, which is mulling the option of hiring thousands of retrenched Post Office employees as it widens its e-commerce amb... |
| 02.07.2025 | Zombie SOEs haunt communications sector | None of the 11 state-owned enterprises in the ICT sector was profitable in the 2024 financial year, with most making losses for at least five years.
This is according to a document tabled in parliament by communications minister Solly Malat... |
| 13.06.2025 | Public money, private plans: MPs demand Post Office transparency | Tensions reached boiling point in a Wednesday meeting of parliament’s select committee on economic development & trade after Post Office business rescue practitioners Anoosh Rooplal and Juanita Damons requested that parts of their prese... |
| 08.05.2025 | Post Office has cost taxpayers R10-billion in 10 years | The struggling South African Post Office has once again received a temporary lifeline from government through the approval of a R381-million “income support” grant that will pay salaries for the next six months.
The subsidy takes the total ... |
| 16.04.2025 | Post Office crisis deepens as bailout remains elusive and parliament grows impatient | Anoosh Rooplal and Juanita Damons, the business rescue practitioners for the Post Office, have blamed a scheduling conflict for missing an important Tuesday meeting with MPs.
They had been expected to address the national council of provinc... |
| 06.03.2025 | The Digital Dilemma: South Africa's Struggle with State IT and Postal Services | In the heart of South Africa's governance, two entities stand as symbols of inefficiency: the South African Post Office and the State IT Agency (Sita). Both are trapped in a web of bureaucracy, financial strain, and political maneuvering. T... |
| 04.03.2025 | Here is a radical idea: let go of the Post Office | The South African Post Office is deadweight threatening to overburden an already-stretched national fiscus.
Having been in business rescue since July 2023, and now on the verge of collapse, the decision to let go of the Post Office represen... |
| 26.02.2025 | Post Office gets emergency short-term bailout | National treasury has come to the rescue of the South African Post Office by approving a R150-million “virement”, which the department of communications & digital technologies said will “assist in addressing immediate financial pressure... |
| 09.12.2024 | Bookmarks | How WhatsApp ate the world | These are the articles, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours. How WhatsApp ate the world: WhatsApp, now with two billion daily users, is evolving from a messaging app into an “everyt... |
| 06.12.2024 | Make or break time for the South African Post Office | The South African Post Office has for the second time applied to the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) for financial assistance following national treasury’s decision in October not to allocate R... |
| 20.11.2024 | The SABC Shake-Up: A Financial Exodus Amidst Political Turmoil | The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is in a storm. The resignation of Yolande van Biljon, the chief financial officer, has sent ripples through the already beleaguered public broadcaster. Her departure marks a significant shif... |
| 20.11.2024 | Letter | Tips for parly on revitalised Icasa council | Later this week, parliament’s portfolio committee on communications & digital technologies will interview candidates for four vacant positions on the council of communications regulator Icasa.
Charged with regulating the telecommunicati... |
| 04.11.2024 | Fate of the Post Office hangs in the balance | Business rescue practitioners Anoosh Rooplal and Juanita Damons, who have been tasked with saving the embattled South African Post Office, are mum on the way forward for the organisation following national treasury’s rejection of a R3.8-bil... |
| 02.10.2024 | Malatsi to seek end to Post Office monopoly | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has approached national treasury for assistance in involving the private sector in saving the Post Office.
The minister said in a statement on Wednesda... |
| 25.09.2024 | South Africa needs the Post Office, e-commerce pioneer says | Donald Valoyi believes the Post Office can play an important role in supporting e-commerce growth in South Africa, even as the struggling state-owned company faces the prospect of going to the wall.
Founder and CEO of online store Zulzi Don... |
| 30.06.2024 | DA communications minister to bring policy shake-up | Newly appointed communications minister Solly Malatsi
South Africa has its first minister of communications in the democratic era who isn’t a member of the ANC – and significant policy changes could be on the cards.
President Cyril Ramaphos... |
| 07.06.2024 | SA Post Office settles first round of severance packages | There is finally some progress on the SA Post Office retrenchment process. Image: File
SA Post Office Business Rescue Practitioners (BRPs), Mr. Anoosh Rooplal and Mr. Juanito Damons have settled the first round of severance packages to retr... |
| 07.06.2024 | Retrenched Post Office workers get severance payout | Business rescue practitioners for the embattled South African Post Office, Anoosh Rooplal and Juanita Damons, said the first tranche of severance packages for retrenched employees of the state-owned entity is being paid on Friday.
“All retr... |
| 28.05.2024 | State extends Post Office monopoly that’s already widely ignored | Communications minister Mondli Gungubele
Communications minister Mondli Gungubele has extended the exclusivity period the Post Office has over the delivery of sub-1kg parcels for another year – to 1 April 2025.
According to a notice publish... |
| 28.05.2024 | Post Office debacle shows ANC is out of ideas | The author, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod
The news that communications minister Mondli Gungubele has extended the Post Office’s monopoly over small items – a monopoly that is widely ignored – shows once again that the ANC is bereft of id... |
| 01.05.2024 | Plan to save thousands of Post Office jobs fails | An effort to use relief funds earmarked during the Covid-19 pandemic, aimed at saving jobs at the embattled Post Office, has failed, meaning thousands of employees of the collapsed state-owned company again face the chop.
The latest develop... |
| 07.04.2024 | Social Grants: A Political Chess Game | The battle for social grants intensifies as the 2024 General Election looms. President Cyril Ramaphosa's hint at the possible disappearance of social grants if the ANC is not reelected sparks controversy. The recent increase in SRD grants a... |
| 07.04.2024 | SASSA Grants: A Lifeline for Many | SASSA grants provide much-needed relief for South Africans. Find out the latest updates on the upcoming grants and how they are making a difference in people's lives.
SASSA grants are a beacon of hope for many South Africans, offering finan... |
| 07.04.2024 | SASSA payment dates for MAY: Here’s when you can collect your grants | Here’s when you can collect your grants in MAY. Images: Stock/Canva/SASSA
SASSA has released payment dates for various grant categories, including old age, disability, and children’s grants for MAY 2024 and you can collect your grants from ... |
| 05.04.2024 | April children’s SASSA grants can be collected TODAY | The children’s SASSA grant payments can be collected TODAY. Images: Stock/Canva/SASSA
The great news is that you can collect your SASSA children’s grants today. Here are all the dates and more information on the increases.
WHAT IS THE LATES... |
| 04.04.2024 | April disability SASSA grants can be collected TODAY | April disability SASSA grant payments can be collected TODAY. Images: Stock/Canva/X/SASSA
The long-awaited increase for the social grants will be reflected in the April SASSA payments.
To keep pace with inflation and improve access, authori... |
| 25.03.2024 | Innovation Drives Change in Gauteng | A new Smart Licensing Centre in Tshwane, Gauteng is set to revolutionize licensing services. The collaboration between the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport and the Gautrain Management Agency aims to prioritize efficiency, convenien... |
| 22.03.2024 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Friday, 22 March | Disgraced former Steinhoff International CEO Markus Jooste reportedly committed suicide during an arrest on Thursday, 21 March. Image: AFP/RODGER BOSCH
We’ve got the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa on Friday, 22 March.
He ... |
| 22.03.2024 | SASSA: R350 SRD grant payment dates for March | People queuing outside a SA Post Office branch to collect their R350 SRD grant. Image: Mkhuseli Sizani/Ground Up.
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has released the payment dates for the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) g... |
| 15.03.2024 | WATCH OUT for this new South African Post Office scam in 2024 | Don’t be duped by the latest South African Post Office scam doing the rounds in 2024. Image: File/Pixabay/Fotor
A new South African Post Office scam is doing the rounds in 2024. And here’s how you can protect yourself against it. SAPO’s joi... |
| 26.02.2024 | WHAT to do when your South African car licence expires in 2024 | Here’s a step-by-step guide of what to do when your South African car licence expires in 2024. Image: File
If, like me, you just received a notification that your South African car licence expires in 2024, here’s a quick-fire checklist on h... |
| 22.01.2024 | R8.7-million SA Post Office employee fraud case heads to court | An R8.7-million SA Post Office employee fraud case will be heard today. Image: File/Fotor
An SA Post Office employee fraud case involving four in the Free State will be heard in Tseseng Magistrate’s Court today. Last Friday, four SA Post Of... |
| 20.12.2023 | FAQ: How to replace lost or stolen SASSA card this festive season | Here are all the ways to replace a lost or stolen SASSA card this December. Picture: File.
The South African Social Security Agency has not made life easy for anyone who needs to replace a lost or stolen SASSA card. Earlier in the year, SAS... |
| 12.12.2023 | The plan to save the Post Office | Mondli Gungubele
The Post Office’s business rescue practitioners said on Tuesday that many improvements need to be undertaken to make the company profitable again, although the plan will take as long as five years to implement.
Anoosh Roopl... |
| 03.12.2023 | Important INFO if you renew your car licence in SA this December | Important info if you renew your car licence in SA this month. Picture: File/Fotor.
Time to renew your car licence in SA? We’ve got you covered with the quickest and cheapest ways to do it. Haven’t you heard, times are changing and standing... |
| 03.07.2023 | These are the CHEAPEST ways to renew your license disc online | 5 ways to renew your vehicle license online
There are several ways South Africans can avoid standing in lengthy queues to renew their vehicle license disc online. Our colleagues at Business Tech looked at all the options across the province... |
| 18.05.2023 | Post Office has failed to pay into employees’ retirement fund for three years | The Post Office, which is facing liquidation, has not been paying over pension contributions in spite of a court order to do so. Photo: Alide Dasnois via Groundup
Article originally published on GroundUp By Steve Kretzmann
The court ruled i... |
| 18.05.2023 | Post Office can be saved: Gungubele | Mondli Gungubele. Image: GCIS
Communications minister Mondli Gungubele said government is working to save the South African Post Office and ensure business continuity under a provisional liquidation order.
Speaking in parliament on Wednesda... |
| 13.04.2023 | Barnes believes Post Office still ‘salvageable’ | Mark Barnes
Mark Barnes, the former Post Office CEO who 18 months ago proposed a solution to bail out the failing state-owned entity, is not giving up despite his knock on the door of government having gone completely unanswered.
Speaking t... |
| 13.03.2023 | SASSA: Here’s how to replace expiring cards | SASSA: Here’s how to replace expiring cards Photos: Stock/Canva
All social grant recipients using the Sassa/Postbank cards due to expire at month-end must collect new cards at their nearest Post Office branch from TODAY.
ALSO READ: Ramaphos... |
| 08.02.2023 | SONA 2023: Will Ramaphosa extend the R350 SRD grant AGAIN? | President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a keynote address at the Investing in African Mining Indaba, aimed at driving investments in Africa. The Mining Indaba took place from 6 to 9 February 2023 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre... |
| 22.10.2022 | Police negotiator helps free Post Office employees held hostage | Post Office staff held hostage in Dutywa, Eastern Cape. Photo: PHOTO: www.parcelandpostaltechnologyinternational.com
A police negotiator was called upon to help free nine Post Office employees that were held against their will by a robbery ... |
| 18.10.2022 | Post Office warns of customs email scam – here’s how to spot it | The SA Post Office has asked the public to be aware of a customs email. Photo: Stock Image / Pixabay
The South African Post Office has issued a warning to the public about emails sent by fraudsters.
ALSO READ: Suspected ATM scammer arrested... |
| 11.09.2022 | DA asks Hawks to probe ‘large-scale fraud’ at SA Post Office | The DA has requested that the Hawks investigate a matter of R700 million fraud at the South African Post Office. Photo: postoffice.co.za and da.org.za
The Democratic Alliance (DA) wrote to the head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Inve... |
| 01.07.2022 | Collect your chronic meds from your local Post Office | Collect your chronic meds from your local Post Office: Image: GCIS Vuk’uzenzele
If you are a patient who receives chronic medication from a government clinic, you can now choose to receive your chronic medication at a nearby post office, in... |
| 01.06.2022 | Post Office lost almost half its revenue and is in “financial ICU” | The South African Post Office told parliament it is in “financial ICU” but with more time and money could turn things around. Photo: Twitter
The South African Post Office told Parliament on Tuesday it was improving in its operational effici... |
| 16.05.2022 | R350 SRD grant: You can now apply on WhatsApp | You can now apply for the SRD grant on WhatsApp.
Photo: Supplied
Beneficiaries of the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant can now apply on WhatsApp.
The party said the move will no doubt disadvantage millions of poor South Africans w... |
| 14.05.2022 | Not sure if you have unclaimed R350 grants? Here is how to check | You can track you application on Whatsapp. Photo: Supplied
Did you apply for the R350 Special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant?
“The SA Post Office strongly advises beneficiaries to include this option: Post Office branches wi... |
| 13.05.2022 | Not sure if you have unclaimed R350 grants? Here is how to check | You can now apply for the SRD grant on WhatsApp.
Photo: Supplied
Did you apply for the R350 Special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant?
“The SA Post Office strongly advises beneficiaries to include this option: Post Office branc... |
| 06.03.2022 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Friday, 3 June 2022 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Friday, 3 June 2022 Photos:Collage/Stock/Canva
We’ve got the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa on Friday, 3 June 2022.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted through his offic... |
| 06.02.2022 | Patients can now collect chronic medication at the Post Office | People queuing outside a post office to collect their R350 SRD grants.
Photo: Mkhuseli Sizani/GroundUp
Patients of government clinics can now choose to receive their chronic medication at a convenient South African Post Office branch instea... |
| 25.11.2021 | SA Post office Reminds Customers To Renew Post Box | SAPO. Image source: Pretoria East Rekord
Customers of the South African Post Office (Sapo) have one week left to renew their post box rental for 2022 at this year’s rate.
In a statement on Thursday, the post office said the early bird speci... |
| 25.11.2021 | SA Post office Reminds Customers To Renew Post Box | SAPO. Image source: Pretoria East Rekord |
| 07.05.2021 | Parcel delivery times could double if the Post Office’s monopoly ambitions succeed | (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)
The South African Post Office says it has exclusive rights to deliver parcels weighing 1kg or less.
This interpretation was supported by the Independent Communication Authority, which will defend its po... |
| 09.04.2015 | Dysfunctional Post Office jacks up prices | - |
| - | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Wednesday 11 May 2022 | No more long queues at South African Post Office branches! Photo: Stock/Flickr
We’ve got all the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa you really need to know on Wednesday 11 May.
According to a report, the accident happened on ... |
| - | R350 SRD grant: Post Office decision ‘COULD’ be reversed- Here’s why | A South African Post Office branch. Photo: Facebook
The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it will leverage all the parliamentary channels to oppose the decision by the South African Post Office (SAPO) to stop paying out the R350 SRD grant.
ALSO... |
| - | COVID-19: SA Post Office temporarily suspends airmail service to China | The South African Post Office has temporarily suspended services of airmail to China due to its ‘Zero COVID’ policy. Photo: @PostofficeSa / Twitter
The South African Post Office (SAPO) has temporarily suspended airmail services to China. Ch... |
| - | SASSA R350 grant: SA Post Office to stop paying beneficiaries | Social justice organisations have slammed the new regulations for the R350 SRD grant.
Photo: The South African
The South African Post Office has announced that it will no longer pay out the SASSA R350 SRD grant.
SASSA beneficiaries who rece... |
| - | When will the Post Office stop paying the R350 SRD grant? | HAMMANSKRAAL, SOUTH AFRICA – JULY 06: People queue at South African Post Office at JubiIee Mall during adjusted lockdown level 4 on July 06, 2021 in Hammanskraal, South Africa. It is reported that the South African Social Security Agency (S... |
