Statement by president cyril ramaphosa on measures to combat covid-19 epidemic
15 MARCH 2020 Fellow South Africans,I am addressing you this evening on a matter of great national importance.The world is facing a medical emergency far graver than what we haveexperi-enced in over a century. The World Health Organisation has declared the coronavirus outbreak as aglobal pandemic. There are now more than 162 000 people who […]
GEPF pensioners will receive a 3.6% annual pension increase as of 1 April 2020
Date: 02 March 2020 Pretoria – Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) announced today that an annual pension increase of 3.6% to its pensioners will effect from 1 April 2020. Pensioners who retired on or before 1 April 2019 are to be increased with a total increase equal to 100% CPI which is 3.6% over the […]
Government Employees Pension Fund on Eskom Proposal
7 February 2020, Pretoria – The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), has noted the recent media reports including government support as well as public discourse on the statement issued by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) titled, “Key Eskom and Economic Intervention Proposals”. In the statement, COSATU proposes, “a debt package to reduce […]
