The Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU says it will seek urgent engagements with the Ministers of Employment and Communications as well as with Treasury, to find solutions for the ongoing crisis, threatening the collapse of the South African Post Office SAPO and jobs of thousands of its employees.
According to COSATUs Parliamentary Coordinator Matthew Parks, if the Post Office is allowed to collapse - and if reports that government funds earmarked to assist its turnaround have not been paid are true - it will undermine efforts to amend the SAPO and Postbank Acts.
Parks says the amendments were to enable SAPO to embark on a new, sustainable business model and its urgent for government to act.
