Fin24 reports that President Jacob Zuma congratulated his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday night during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) for successfully overseeing the conclusion of a national minimum wage (NMW) deal.  

Ramaphosa on Wednesday signed a deal that will see workers getting paid a minimum hourly rate of R20 from at least 1 May 2018.  Government, business, the community sector and two of the three labour federations represented at Nedlac signed agreements on measures to strengthen labour stability and collective bargaining and on modalities for the introduction of a NMW.  The third labour federation, Cosatu, was not present to sign the agreements, having asked to be given time to provide a full report to its Central Executive Committee.

• A short report by Liesl Peyper is at Fin24
• See too, Interaction between government, business and labour fruitful, says Zuma, at IOL News
• And also, NPC applauds parties involved in minimum wage agreement, at The Citizen

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