Communications Minister Solly Malatsi confirmed that the South African Post Office could be sold to the private sector in a final bid to save it.
The Post Office could be sold to the private sector to save the ailing entity, and South Africans have mixed reactions to it. Image: GroblerduPreez/Ivan Pantic.In an attempt to save the entity from a total collapse, Communications Minister Solly Malatsi confirmed they were looking at privatising SAPO.
Maybe then I'll get the parcel, I've been waiting five years for.”“This is what the marriage between the ANC and DA is based on, destroying government capacity and giving off state assets to private sector crooks in collaboration with politicians. We need a proper people's government that will come in and re-nationalise all these stolen state assets.”Many had hopes that jobs would be saved after the state-owned enterprise entered business rescue.
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