Initially Standard Bank sent out a message that seemed to imply that all loans (including home loans) would be given 3 month payment holiday - you could opt out if you didn’t want it.
Then they sent a correction later saying it was only for SMME’s and Student Loans.
They just raised my hopes only to crush them 
I would have tried to hack the system somehow to decrease future payments.
If anyone’s interested I emailed that Ters uif email address thing. This was their reply:
Dear Employer
Unemployment Insurance Act, 2001 (Act 63 of 2001), as amended
Unemployment Insurance Fund response to the Corona Virus
C19 TERS: Payment of benefits to employees who suffer a loss of income due to closure of the employer’s business as a result of the national lockdown
The request for financial relief under the C19 TERS scheme is acknowledge. Kindly note easy aid to assist the employer to access the employee benefit during the closure period
The key documents to submit or complete
- Letter of authority
- MOA
- Prescribed template
- Bank Confirmation Letter
- Bank statement
All documents are attached and please allow for a smooth process by completing all information and documents needed.
Please , take care when indicating the National Minimum wage. It is crucial and incorrect stated values might result in serious delays in the processing of the benefit payments
The means to payment is critical and provide banking details as per the mode selected, example ,if the payment should go to the employer, then the employer special banking account should be given.
However, proof of payment is required to satisfy that the payments indeed went to the employees. This is also critical, if further payments are required
Please note the enquiry telephone to enquire on the claims lodged: 012 337 1997
With reference to the prescribed template;
Below information in the table are mandatory . The file should be exported in CSV format with Pipe delimiter (|) from the payroll system. Indication of Header and Footer should be made as highlighted below.
|UifReferenceNumber|Shutdown From (DD-MMM-YYYY)ONLY|Shutdown Till(DD-MMM-YYYY)ONLY|Trade Name|PAYE number|Contact Number|Email Address|IDNumber|First Name|LastName|Renumeration(Monthly)|Employment Start Date|Employment End Date|Sector
Minimum wage per month Leave Income(During Shutdown) Bank Name Branch Code Account Type Account Number ##Filename should be in the following format
UIREEFERENCENUMBER_ddmmmyyyy_uniquesequence.csv
00000012_25mar2020_01.csv
##File should have a header record (1st line ) as under
H |DATE DDMMMYYYY UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT 63 0F 2001. EMPLOYERS DECLARATION FOR SHUT DOWN/SHORT TIME DUE CORONA VIRUS FOR MONTH OF - ------ . APPLICATION UNDER NATURAL DISASTER BENEFICIARY FUND
## each file should have footer record as under
F |2050
Here 2050 is the actual number of record to be loaded into database, between header line and footer line
All the fields must be separated by pipe | sign
If file doesn’t have header/ footer record then it will be considered as discarded as incomplete dataset.
Unemployment Insurance Commissioner
Here are the attachments on WeTransfer
So I see government has amended the list of jobs that are essential services, namely payroll people that ensures the payment of staff.
Does anyone know how such people would get the right paperwork to allow them to go into the office to do the payroll? Or does the business just write out a letter on a letterhead or something?
Edit.
From what I can see seems you need this document for allowing staff.
The whole being essential service getting a certificate from the CIPC seems to only be if you want the business to operate during the lockdown. It literally says it on the certificate that it’s not for the staff.
So as far as I can see, for just 1 person, the payroll person, to go into the office to do the payroll they would only need the gazette permit, not the certificate seeing that it’s only for if the whole company wants to operate.
What do any of you think? @SIGSTART maybe?
My business falls under essential services so I get to work from home, which at least alleviates boredom. I’ve had to shut down most of my operation, but my laboratory service is in high demand now, so I’m extremely grateful for that.
Here are some pictures from my foray into lock down this morning:
Other than that, thank JEEBUS we most likely won’t have loadshedding over this period - it would likely make people feel even more unnerved.
Beer supply is looking good, although I probably should have gotten more smokes…
Day 2
20 days to go
We will get through this
That should not have happened. I fully understand the police side in this case. They have to deal with alot more shit now with people thinking its funny. I expected media companies to at least have some sort of PPE or Clothing so Police know they media.
I feel so bad for the people risking it out in the world because people are selfish and dont give a dam, Makes me sick.
Looks like Chernobyl.
I think you’re on the money. So long as you have an official letter from your employer with logos, stamps, and whatever else will make it look official, with a number law enforcement can call to conform your story, that should be enough for now.
There are also people who need to look after their elderly parents as a sole caregiver, and to those folks I just advised that they write a similar letter declaring the reason they are out and about to present when you go through a roadblock.
I think people are really afraid. I’ve got a lot of love for Bheki Cele, but the man’s authoritarian rhetoric is not doing much to set people at ease. But I also guess his whole aim is to get people to stay at home, whatever it takes.
Thank you for the info. I’ll forward it along.
Yeah Cele is scary but I think it’s kind of needed.
Enough of the jhb, dbn, ct images, here’s footage of PE.
@SIGSTART here’s where we met up, deserted.
Yeah I’ve seen that one. Dataaaa 
We’ve slowly been creeping up that 3rd column
Mthembu thanks those of us staying home
It’s only day 2. Hopefully it gets better. The thing is that the whole country is on lockdown to protect areas like this.
im sorry to say this is the reality. SA is going to get hit and it will get hit hard.SA will be forced to lock down areas soon. It would be a thing of stay home it will be a thing of Stay in you location.
I fear what is going to happen
Yeah I was once in a place where nightshift and dayshift workers shared beds. I think they where 16 people in a 2 bedroom place. So yeah this is going to hit those places hard really hard.
