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Public sector wage negotiations: It s high noon – will unions accept 1 5%?

Public sector wage negotiations: It’s high noon – will unions accept 1.5%? 23 July 2021 1:11 PM Mandy Wiener interviews Mugwena Maluleke, chief negotiator for public sector unions at Cosatu. Some unions have yet to decide whether or not they will accept the government’s 1.5% wage increase offer Government is also offering a monthly cash gratuity of between R1200 and R1695, but this won’t count when determining pension contributions – a sticking point for some unions © moovstock/123rf.com Public sector wage negotiations have entered their final phase. The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) was the first union to accept the government’s offer of a 1.5% increase and a monthly cash gratuity of between R1200 and R1695.

Government can t borrow R70bn to increase public servants salaries, says Senzo Mchunu

Government can’t borrow R70bn to increase public servants’ salaries, says Senzo Mchunu Share Johannesburg - Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu has warned that the government would have to borrow over R70 billion to comply with the agreement to increase public servants salaries it failed to honour last year. Mchunu filed his written submissions ahead of next month s Constitutional Court battle between unions representing state employees and the government over the failure to increase their salaries in 2020. The agreement reached at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) in 2018 would have seen salaries increase by between 4.4% and 5.4% agreed with effect from April 1, 2020.

Matilda Gaboo, Mathews Phosa, the SIU and Number One

“Alliance Mining’s proposed BEE deal was announced by the company on July 14 2009. It was described as a “broad-based” deal, yet it would have resulted in Phosa becoming the company’s largest shareholder. “Phosa’s close friend, Matilda Gaboo, who had no prior involvement in Alliance Mining, would have ended up with more shares than the company’s entire combined workforce.” Julius Cobbett, Moneyweb, 16 April, 2010 Mathews Phosa’s recent Damascene conversion, his sudden realisation that corruption is destroying the Rainbow Nation, has elicited some scepticism. Piet Rampedi in Star and Ranjeni Munusamy on the Daily Maverick website both pointed out how commonplace it has become for ANC politicians to discover their conscience and their concern for the public weal once they had retired and their pensions were safely in the bank or once they had not made it onto the latest slate.

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