Providing the means to assist our employees to save towards a dignified retirement.
The objective is to ensure that members are able to attain retirement readiness, which is influenced by certain factors during their working life while saving for retirement.In fulfilling its duty to members, the Board of Trustees must control what it can in respect of the components impacting retirement outcomes.
The Fund (the Fund) is registered with the Financial Sector Conduct Authority as a registered provident fund in terms of the Pension Funds Act (No 24 of 1956) with a Registration Number of 12/8/36179/1.
To this end, the Board of Trustees manages and monitors the affairs of the Fund.
The Fund is governed by a Board of Trustees, which provides strategic guidance on the management of the Fund. The various sub-committees provide specialised guidance and report to the Board of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees duties is governed by Section 7D of the Pension Fund Act 24 of 1956.
The Fund also makes use of service providers to assist the Board in fulfilling its fiduciary duties. All service providers are appointed through a competitive bidding process.
The current service providers are as follows:
The Principal Officer supports the Board in ensuring that the Fund acts in the best interests of its members, pensioners, and beneficiaries. The Principal Officer implements all Board decisions, gives effect to the Board’s strategy, and supports the Board with day-to-day operations.
The current Principal Officer is Michelle De Jager.
By now, you will no doubt have received numerous emails from businesses updating you on how they are complying with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), which came into full effect on 1 July 2021.
Together with our Service Providers to the Fund in providing you with retirement funding benefits, we have security measures in place to safeguard your personal information when communicating with the Employer and you as a Member. This is to comply with POPIA, which is a law that enforces a person’s constitutional right to privacy by regulating the collection, use, sharing, storage, and destruction of personal information.
Security measures will apply to all recipients of our communications, which means you and the Employers. We will never send emails that have personal, identifiable information in the main text. Instead, we will include the personal information in secure PDFs attached to the email.
This means that the recipient will need a password to open the attachment and view the communication. The password will be specific and familiar to the recipient of the document, meaning that all recipients will receive a password in a separate email in order to access the password-protected document.
Please contact the Fund’s Chairperson or Principal Officer should you wish to view a copy of the detailed Privacy Policy of the Fund.
Fund Chairperson:
Julian Venter: Julian.Venter@dhl.com
Fund Principal Officer:
Michelle De Jager: Michelle@fccs.co.za
The Funds POPIA Privacy Policy is detailed below:
The purpose of PAIA is to give effect to the constitutional right of access to information held by any private or public body that is required for the exercise or protection of your rights.
PAIA provides you with the right of access to information held by public and private bodies when you request such information in accordance with the provisions of PAIA, for the exercise or protection of any of your or another person’s rights.
If you make such a request, a public or private body must release the information unless PAIA or any other relevant law states that the records containing such information may not be released.
The Funds PAIA Manual is detailed below:
1. Introduction
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