
BREAKING: Post office will take over grant payments
Treasury is currently giving feedback to Parliament on the disagreement between Sassa and the Post Office over the social grants payment issues.
8 November 2017 | Business ReportTreasury is currently giving feedback to Parliament on the disagreement between Sassa and the Post Office over the social grants payment issues.
8 November 2017 | Business ReportSouth African social security agency’s fate will today be decided as entities confer in Parliament in order to reach an agreement on a contractor.
1 November 2017 | Business ReportSocial Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has challenged those who have accused her of benefiting personally from Sassa to prove it.
1 November 2017 | EconomyParliament has given Sassa and the South African Post office until 6pm today to thrash out a deal to ensure that 17 million grant recipients are paid.
1 November 2017 | PoliticsThe South African State Security Agency and the South African Post Office will return to the negotiating table after significant pressure from MPs.
31 October 2017 | PoliticsJustice Johan Froneman said there has to be an investigation to test allegations that Minister Bathabile Dlamini was to blame for the Sassa debacle.
15 June 2017 | South AfricaNet1 UEPS Technologies said it’s agreed to pay its founder and chief executive officer an R104.5 million severance payment.
31 May 2017 | CompaniesNet1 founder and chief executive Serge Belamant will retire a year early and will be replaced by current chief financial officer, Herman Kotzé.
26 May 2017 | CompaniesSiyabonga Cwele says the South African Post Office is ready to take over the payment of social grants from the South African Social Security Agency.
25 May 2017 | CompaniesParliament's watchdog public accounts committee has written to Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to ask that it be given insight into the monitoring of grant payment.
12 May 2017 | PoliticsBanking shares, which lost R80 billion in market capitalisation after President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle at the end of March, remained weak on Friday.
8 May 2017 | CompaniesTrouble-prone Net1 UEPS Technologies said it remained committed to fulfilling its contract to the end in South Africa.
8 May 2017 | CompaniesNet1 UEPS Technologies moves to refute accusations of unethical lending practices to millions of social welfare beneficiaries in South Africa.
24 April 2017 | CompaniesAllan Gray, one of South Africa’s biggest money managers, said it’s “increasingly concerned” over the running of Net1 UEPS Technologies.
21 April 2017 | CompaniesSocial Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini bypassed officials at the country’s welfare department and helped create a crisis, her former director-general claims.
11 April 2017 | CompaniesNet1 UEPS Technologies, which has come under scrutiny over its welfare deal, is splitting its Chairman and CEO roles.
7 April 2017 | Companies