South Africa: Current Crisis At the South African Post Office

press release

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is extremely flabbergasted and incensed by the continuing total lack of leadership and sound governance practices at the South African Post Office (SAPO). The newly appointed "caretaker" Simo Lushaba who took over to oversee the executive management activities of the executive board following its sacking late last year for its failure to perform its fiduciary duties has displayed serious inability and a lack of foresight in turning around the situation at this important public entity which is so critical to the delivery of postal and communications services to our people and so central to the developmental trajectory of our country. This happen after the minister of Telecommunication and Postal Services Honourable Siyabonga Cwele established a leadership forum which involved all stakeholders including the trade unions that are organised in SAPO.

One of the objectives of the leadership forum was to establish issues that led to the organisation (SAPO) to a state of total collapse. What was presented by labour at this forum, is that sporadically unprotected industrial actions and labour unrest had taken hold of this critical public entity since 2009. And fundamental to the submissions made by labour were the following:

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