Government workers want a big wage increase or will down tools; More corruption uncovered at Eskom under Koko; Mandatory vaccination policies targeted; and South Africa is set to get its first cryptocurrency regulation.
More than 200,000 public servants have threatened to test the government’s finances as they push for an inflation-beating 10% increase across the board as part of ongoing wage negotiations. The Public Servants Association has lodged a dispute with the government after wage negotiations stalled and threatened that workers could down tools if an agreement is not reached in the next month.
The contracts, including a R2 billion control and instrumentation deal at Kusile, resulted in ABB paying Impulse International R549 million in 2016 and 2017 – at a time when former acting Eskom chief executive Mathsela Koko’s stepdaughter, Koketso Choma, stood to benefit. [Trade federation Cosatu plans to take a formal stance against mandatory vaccination policies in workplaces, despite long being a proponent for Covid-19 vaccination in South Africa.
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