‘Pay salary increases or prepare for a fight’
Nov 04, 2020
3 minutes
CHANELLE LUTCHMAN AND CHARLENE SOMDUTH
PUBLIC servants are not interested in how empty the state’s coffers are. They want the money promised to them.
In 2018, the government agreed to a three-year wage deal with workers – among them teachers, nurses and police. For the first two years, they received salary increases of between 4.3% and 5.4%.
However, there was no increase this year.
Mandla Shabangu, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA KZN provincial secretary, said: “We had an agreement and government cannot keep to it.
“I don’t understand why (Finance Minister) Tito Mboweni was allowed
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