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‘Pay salary increases or prepare for a fight’

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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