SAPO explains how Uyinene Mrwetyana murder accused slipped through | IOL News

Pretoria - The South African Post Office is committed to getting to the bottom of the circumstances that led to the appointment of the employee charged with the murder of University of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, the SAPO said on Saturday.

The Clareinch Post Office was closed for business to allow the police forensic investigation teams to conduct their work unhindered. In addition to the dedicated sub-committee convened by the board to investigate the circumstances surrounding the appointment of the implicated employee, the post office management conducted a preliminary investigation whose findings had been shared with Communications and Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, he said.

"However, when this group of employees were offered permanent part-time employment contracts in 2013, the implicated employee submitted his CV as well as qualifications and declared that he had no previous criminal convictions," Nwaila said. "When SAPO took over the [South African Social Security Agency] Sassa grants payments in 2018, all current customer-facing and other key employees were subjected to SSA personnel suitability screening. Out of the 13,000 employees, SSA had found 300 records of which 174 were convictions in which the implicated employee was one of them. His conviction related to a 1998 carjacking conviction with an eight year sentence, of which five years were served with three years suspended," he said.

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