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BL Premium reports that the government has been given seven days to respond to a list of demands by the Public Servants Association (PSA), whose members marched to National Treasury offices in Pretoria on Thursday calling for above-inflation increases.
In a show of force, thousands went on marches across the country to register their unhappiness over the government’s unilateral implementation of a 3% wage offer for the country’s more than 1.3-million public servants. Addressing marchers outside the Treasury offices in Pretoria, PSA president Lufuno Mulaudzi accused the government of taking public servants for granted, saying “we are rejecting this nonsense of 3% they are giving us”. Mulaudzi handed over a list of demands to Treasury acting COO Laura Mseme, which called for a one-year, 10% increase across the board and the continuation of a R1,000 after-tax cash gratuity beyond March 2023. Besides Gauteng, the PSA led marches in the Eastern Cape, the Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State, and a march to Parliament for Cape Town. But, the Department of Public Service & Administration’s Moses Mushi claimed the one-day industrial action had no effect on government services as employees were largely at their workstations. The PSA’s Reuben Maleka disagreed, saying: “The strike was a success. Our members went all out, and it was not just PSA members, there were others from various unions too supporting the workers’ cause.” Maleka warned that should the government fail to respond satisfactorily to the PSA’s demands within a week, “we are going to intensify and make sure there’s a full-blown indefinite strike in the public sector.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
- Read too, Government has money to pay wage increase demands, says PSA, at TimesLive
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