{"id":1452,"date":"2014-11-17T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T07:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:03:34","slug":"sa-post-offices-sapo-board-voluntarily-resigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/sa-post-offices-sapo-board-voluntarily-resigned\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Post Office&#8217;s (Sapo) board voluntarily resigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The ongoing postal strike could cost charities millions in donations, the South African Institute of Fundraising said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The postal strike action over the past six months could mean a loss of R55 million to non-profit organisations delivering essential social services across the country,&#8221; said SAIF president Ann Brown in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People do not respond to outdated mails; this exercise has been a waste of postage, paper and time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the SA Post Office&#8217;s (Sapo) board voluntarily resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Telecommunications and Postal Minister Siyabonga Cwele said last Friday in a statement the board volunteered to resign to allow him to implement an intervention aimed at resolving issues at Sapo.<\/p>\n<p>The strike has worsened the financial situation at the post office, which faces a R400 million shortfall as mail volumes continue to decline.<\/p>\n<p>Unions are demanding an eight percent increase and the permanent employment of all casual workers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, MPs were told the cash-strapped Sapo was on the brink of collapse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>www.timeslive.co.za<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SAPO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2014\/11\/15\/postal-strike-costing-charities-millions-in-donations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing postal strike could cost charities millions in donations, the South African Institute of Fundraising said on Saturday. &#8220;The postal strike action over the past six months could mean a loss of R55 million to non-profit organisations delivering essential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/sa-post-offices-sapo-board-voluntarily-resigned\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,59,1],"tags":[52,54],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-blogs","category-capisol","category-e-invoicing-2","category-uncategorized","tag-e-invoicing","tag-electronic-invoice-requirements"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.prycision.com\/capisol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}