{"id":177737,"date":"2017-06-05T16:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=177737"},"modified":"2017-06-05T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:09:58","slug":"sa-post-office-appoints-chief-operating-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/177737\/sa-post-office-appoints-chief-operating-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Post Office appoints chief operating officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SA Post Office has appointed Lindiwe Kwele as chief operating officer (COO) with effect from <span data-term=\"goog_1525701910\">5 June 2017<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Kwele was employed as deputy city manager in the City of Tshwane before her current appointment.\u00a0 Before that, she was CEO of the Joburg Tourism Company and CEO of Durban Africa in the Ethekwini Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Kwele holds an MBA from the University of Wales and has successfully completed the Gordon Institute of Business Science\u2019s Executive Leadership Programme, the Municipal Finance Management Programme at the University of Pretoria, an Advanced Business Programme at the Natal Technikon, as well as a B Admin degree (majoring in Economics and Public Administration) at the University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLindiwe joined the group today and we have already had constructive discussions on how to increase our mail operation efficiencies and introduce new ideas to improve customer service.\u00a0 I look forward to working closely with her to restoring confidence in SAPO,&#8221; said Mark Barnes, Post Office CEO.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/173461\/sa-post-office-will-be-governments-radical-challenger-to-big-four-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SA Post Office will be government\u2019s \u201cradical challenger\u201d to big four banks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SA Post Office has appointed Lindiwe Kwele as chief operating officer (COO) with effect from 5 June 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,3004],"class_list":["post-177737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-sapo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177741,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177737\/revisions\/177741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}