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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
Objections: Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has cried oul over ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula’s threats to give him the boot. (Gulshan Khana/AFP)

Trevor Manuel: Pravin Gordhan bowed out with courage

The former finance minister recalled Gordhan’s role in mobilising broad-based protest against apartheid and state capture

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
Public enterprises minister, Pravin Gordhan. File photo by Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

SOE holding company: Mission-led or mission impossible?

Reforming governance has proved to be a Sisyphean task. If done right, a new state holding company could be the final push

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read
Former public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.

I am an active SOE shareholder – Gordhan

The public enterprises minister responds to coverage about his conduct at state firms

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read