The SA Post Office planned to cut 7,000 jobs and sell noncore properties, the director-general of the department of communications & digital technologies told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. 

Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani told the portfolio committee that the Post Office’s wage bill cost the entity R3.6bn a year — amounting to the equivalent of 70% of its expenditure. It employed 12,640 staff...

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