The South African Post Office (Sapo) will now be the new distributor of social grants. This follows an agreement between the Post Office and SASSA announced by the Minister in the Presidency, responsible for Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, Jeff Radebe. This follows the order by the constitutional court that SASSA and the Social Development Department must find an alternative service provider to Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). SAPO and SASSA will now work together to ensure that 17 million social grants recipients receive their grants from April next year.

Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister, Siyabonga Cwele, has moved to reassure social grants beneficiaries that the transition from CPS to the South African Post Office will be smooth. Yesterday, the Inter-Ministerial Committee on social grants announced that SASSA and the Post Office had signed an agreement which would see the Post Office taking over the grants distribution from April the first. In March the Constitutional Court ordered SASSA and the Social Development Department to find a new service provider to replace CPS. Minister Cwele says grants beneficiaries will benefit financially with the new payment system...

Lehumo Investments CEO, Maudi Lentsoane looks at Asian Markets opening the week higher following a positive close on Wall Street, few Central Banks expected to hold their Policy Meetings and Steinhoff on the Spot Light last WEEK. EOH Shares have also come under immense pressure falling by 45% on Thursday.

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Joining us for the last time we Sakina Kamwendo talks Eskom, corruption, Steinhoff, nuclear power with ETF Strategist & Advisor, Nerina Visser whose daughter says she is "exhaustipated"

There has been widespread condemnation from various business sectors and unions in the wake of international retailer Steinhoff revelations of accounting irregularities. Many business groups are calling for business organisations to distance themselves from corrupt companies. Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) says it is disappointed and disgruntled by Steinhoff's recent allegations. It says this makes big business look bad. It is calling on businesses to adhere to the codes of good corporate governance and ethics. Amina Accram reports

The ANC is proposing to establish what it calls an Electoral Revolutionary Council, to better screen it's members who want to occupy top leadership roles. This is contained in the ruling party's policy documents on organisational renewal, which will further be discussed at the National Conference in Nasrec next week. ANC President Jacob Zuma's term will come to an end, as the party gears up to elect new leadership. Mbali Sibanyoni reports...

Suspended head of the Gauteng Health Department, Dr Barney Selebano, has given contradicting answers on whether Premier David Makhura knew about the transfer of patients to NGOs. Selebano also said he will not resign over the bungled Esidimeni relocations, which resulted in the deaths of 143 mentally ill-patients. He maintaines that the decision to terminate the Life Esidimeni contract was a cost-cutting measure. But, he regrets not listening to warnings against the move. Wisani Makhubele reports..

Lehumo Investments CEO, Maudi Lenstoane looks at the Asian Pacific Region, the big Sell Off on Steinhoff, a 66% drop in one day and business confidence in South Africa's economy improving slightly.

Former Acting National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane is being implicated in allegedly fabricating a case against IPID Boss, Robert McBride. This follows a raid by Police watchdog, Independent Police Investigative Directorate - IPID - at Phalane's properties and those of his alleged accomplices. Phahlane was suspended in June after he was accused of fraud and corruption for allegedly taking kickbacks to secure SAPS tenders