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Publication services Publications and hard copy items, such as maps, aviation logbooks, Southern African Development Community (SADC) road traf ½ c signs manuals, motor vehicle forms, Patent . ournals and terminology dictionaries, as well as self-help books created to assist with the social and economic growth of all South Africans, fall under the Publications business unit.

The business unit prints, distributes and acts as a vendor. Products are available to both government departments and the public.

In addition, the business unit also offers the following services: Copyright administration on government documents; ISBN, RP and PR numbers allocation on government documents; Photocopying; Lamination/ encapsulation; and Subscription to government documents.

To meet its mandate, the GPW is required to commit to a substantial investment in sophisticated equipment and processes, which, if restricted to the production of security printed matter only, would not be used economically. It is thus considered imperative that other related non-security services also be rendered by the GPW to ensure optimum use of the institution’s internal production capacity.

Consequently, Publications has been established as a self-sustaining business unit within the GPW.

Stationery services The Stationery Services business unit is responsible for the stockholding of standard documents, such as medicine registers for local clinics, patient cards for hospitals and leave application forms, which are used across government departments, municipalities and other entities. This division does no printing, only the procuring of stock, warehousing and issuing the items on order to customers.The business unit operates from a 10,000m 2 warehouse in Zandfontein and has regional support of ½ ces in Mmabatho, Polokwane and East London. Stationery Services also buys paper in bulk directly from the mills (the Zandfontein warehouse can store up to 48,000 boxes of A4 paper at a time) and then sells these to the various departments to be used as copier and fax paper.

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