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Former glory shattered: Residents attend a community meeting in Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, where the economic fallout of Mpumalanga’s contracting coal sector is increasingly visible. Once one of the country’s top-performing municipalities, it is now struggling with falling rates payments, growing arrears and rising indigent support applications as retrenchments increase. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
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Coal’s slow death in Mpumalanga

As jobs disappear from the coal belt, Middelburg’s economy is buckling. Unpaid rates, collapsing businesses and stalled transition support are deepening the crisis

  • Eyaaz
8 min read
Over the past decade, the South African Post Office has had significant business problems, including debt to creditors and poor revenue collection.

Mid-term budget: ‘Tough love’ for Post Office, which faces liquidation

The treasury also did not allocate new funds to other struggling state-owned entities such as Denel, Transnet, the Land Bank and the South African National Roads Agency

  • Eyaaz
2 min read
Many of the post offices around the country are run down and offer fewer services than previously. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Please Mr Postman, deliver the cheque

In this financial year’s budget, Parliament did not allocate funding for the South African Post Office, which is waiting for a R3.8 billion tranche

  • Eyaaz
6 min read