The South African Post Office’s (Sapo) plan to cut up to 6,000 jobs shocked many this week, but the writing has been on the wall for the better part of a year.
Planned retrenchments were expected by management, labour and the government, and come after years of financial strife, failure to modernise the business and mismanagement by previous leadership. Aside from cutting jobs, the Post Office has repeatedly failed to timeously pay employee medical aid contributions...
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