Top Post Office brass on the run
The SA Post Office was haemorrhaging senior executives, with its human resources department being the worst affected, a source within the organisation told Business Report this week.
The Post Office has recently lost its group executive for human resources, and the general managers for internal audit, risk management, information technology and supply chain management.
Excluding deaths and retirements, the human resources department has had 32 resignations in the past year, including executives and senior managers, said the source.
The last resignation was that of Humaira Choonara, the group executive for human resources, who left last week. Another two senior managers are expected to leave in April.
The Post Office has been dogged by controversy, the most prominent being the tussle between its ousted chief executive, Khutso Mampeule, and communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Cassaburri, the caretaker minister for the service.
In October 2006 Mampeule told MPs that 15 of his top 31 executives had left since he took over in 2004, seven of them after disciplinary hearings.
Motshoanetsi Lefoka, who replaced Mampeule, downplayed the skills loss, denying the spate of resignations was as a result of distrust and an insecure working environment.
She said only five out of 42 senior executives had resigned. Two of these had decided to relocate to Australia.
"If you compare this with job mobility in South Africa in general, this is within the trend and is not alarming," she said.
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