{"id":551816,"date":"2007-03-20T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T06:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551816-minister-considering-post-office-report.html"},"modified":"2007-03-20T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T06:38:16","slug":"minister-considering-post-office-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551816-minister-considering-post-office-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Minister \u2018considering\u2019 Post Office report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">A communications department statement said the minister might later release the key findings, \u201ctaking into account not to undermine legal processes against some people, where it is called for\u201d. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It said the minister would \u201censure the manner in which the report is handled should not raise undue public concern about the credibility of the South African Post Office or impugn the integrity of either the board or managers when there is no evidence\u201d. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Post Office CEO Khutso Mampeule was suspended last November for allegedly \u201cundermining the authority of the board\u201d when he laid a criminal complaint against his predecessor, Maanda Manyatshe, over a disputed tender. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Mampeule laid a complaint with the police against Manyatshe, two other former Post Office executives, and Vision Design House (VDH). <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The complaint alleged that Manyatshe and other staff were behind the irregular appointment of VDH to create a \u201cnew image\u201d for the Post Office at a price of R99,5m. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This resulted in Manyatshe\u2019s resignation as MD of MTN, apparently to \u201cclear his name\u201d. He also lashed back, suing the Post Office for R100m. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=69672\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMUNICATIONS Minister Ivy Matsepe Casaburri says she has received the long-awaited final report on an investigation into the board activities in the South African Post Office and would analyse it before she considered releasing it to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}