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POST BANK TO GET<br />

NEW BRANCHES?<br />

Government has expressed the desire to open their own<br />

State Owned Entity (SEO) bank. This has been on the cards<br />

for some time. Currently the closest to that dream is Post<br />

Bank which is part of the SA post office.<br />

Recently Minister of Communications Khumbudzo<br />

Ntshavheni said that Postbank is ready to take up the role of<br />

a “state bank in South Africa”.<br />

While this is not 100% the same thing, and we may still one<br />

day see a SEO bank in operation, plans are in place to try<br />

rescue Post Bank from the sinking ship that is the post office.<br />

Government has even created new legislation so that the<br />

bank can operate independent of the post office and say that<br />

once the SARB issues the right paperwork they plan to open<br />

another 100 Post Bank branches across SA.

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