South African civil servants will march to the National Treasury in the administrative capital Pretoria and in the country’s other eight provinces next Tuesday to pressure the government over a wage dispute.
The largest trade union federation in the country, COSATU, and other federations representing the majority of the more than one million public sector workers said they would continue to protest until the government improves its three per cent salary increase offer.
Wage negotiations between unions and the government collapsed in early October, with the government subsequently saying it would unilaterally implement the three per cent increase outlined in October’s mid-term budget.
