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The streets of Pretoria are a sea of red as thousands of public servants affiliated with the Public Servants Association (PSA) stage a march to the Union Buildings to hand over a memorandum of demands to the Presidency.

The PSA is demanding a 6,5% salary increase and the continuation of the R1 000 gratuity which is expected to expire in March next year.

Public service workers are on a nationwide strike in rejection of government’s 3% wage offer which they call an insult to public servants. President of the PSA, Lufuno Mulaudzi says, “This march is leading to the Union Buildings and when we get to the Union Buildings, we are going to hand over a memorandum to the Presidency. We are told that the President is not around, so the DG is going to receive the memorandum. But we expect the President to receive our memorandum in future when we strike. We need to be taken seriously.

The association has more than 8 000 members in the Northern Cape and the Provincial Manager Steve Ledibane maintains they cannot let them down. “If the employer is not going to increase salaries on a yearly basis, it affects the current living conditions. It means our members are not able to going to be able to meet their financial obligations. If we are not going to stand as unions and fight for these particular rights for employers to respect them to negotiate with us because we have a bargaining council then it means we are throwing our members under the bus.”Additional reporing by Neria Hlakotsa.

 

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Absolutel madness! They're overpaid anyway so they should be grateful that they were at least offered something.

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