Siyabonga Cwele, the minister of telecommunications and postal services said the board had offered to step down because they wanted to enable him to apply a plan to put to an end problems plaguing Sapo after a fierce, unprotected four-month-long strike.
“This intervention forms part of a suite of targeted activities government is implementing to help the troubled state-owned companies to deliver the services they are mandated to,” Cwele said.
Post Office workers have been on a four-month-long strike, calling for non-permanent workers to be employed full-time.
Eyewitness News quoted Cwele as
saying the problems at the state-owned entity had been on-going for a long time and were not started by the board.
The department of telecommunications and postal services would work on calming the state entity.
Cwele called for the Post Office to impose the no work, no pay rule, which he claimed had not been enforced sufficiently across the board, according to Sapa. Nhlanhla Nene, the minister of finance, has been roped in to work on the clean-up operations at the Sapo.
Simon Lushaba, the former Rand Water CEO, has been appointed to lead a team to restore order in Sapo.
The team has three months to turn things around and ensure workers reported for duty.
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