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18 months ago, ex-Sapo CEO Mark Barnes (Purple Group Chair) submitted a 'self-solving' plan for the South African Post Office, but government simply ignored it.

Despite a R2.4-billion February bailout from national treasury, the Post Office is struggling to keep its head above water.

R2.4bn bailout was announced in the February budget.

18 months ago, ex-Sapo CEO Mark Barnes (Purple Group Chair) submitted a 'self-solving' plan for the South African Post Office, but government simply ignored it.

O politics! What a misanthrope you are. There is an old quote often wrongly, as it happens, attributed to Groucho Marx, who did say it but wasn’t the first to do so: ‘Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it wrongly, and applying unsuitable remedies.’ The...

What do we make of the decision by the Treasury to exempt Eskom from the reporting requirements of the Public Finance Management Act? Well, I think the short answer is that we are suspicious (if not offended). What do we make of the decision by the Treasury to exempt Eskom from the reporting re...

Sumter Highs Judah Keaton wasnt just any other kicker for the Gamecocks. Head coach Mark Barnes jokes that some kickers just want to come by practice for 15 minutes, get their kicks in and head home. Not Keaton. He was a true member of the …

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Ever since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, or GFC as it is now known, the idea of a new banking crisis freaks out the entire financial system more definitively than Scream VI. Oh, didn’t you know? Yes, there are in fact now six versions of the Scream horror movie franchise, posing the questio...

On Monday night President Cyril Ramaphosa finally announced a Cabinet reshuffle. To me, it was significantly underwhelming. We are Manchester United and two-nil down; we are Jana Novotná at one set all, blithely unaware of what is about to happen next.