The Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Mr Senzo Mchunu, is calling for the citizens of South Africa to come forward with proposals which might assist in resolving the deadlock between Government and Organised Labour over the current public service wage negotiations. This comes after Government and Labour reached a deadlock on negotiations on Friday. The Minister held a media briefing last week Thursday, the 22nd of April 2021, and stated that these were the most difficult wage negotiations between the parties, which the country had ever faced and based this on a number of factors, including: the bad state of the country’s economy; COVID-19, the outcome in the Labour Appeal Court, with Organised Labour appealing the decision in the Constitutional Court, as well as the need for urgent reforms in the public service, to name a few.