Here are 5 important things happening in South Afr4ica today (5 September 2024).
Union leaders are pushing for a 12% wage increase for 1.3 million government workers, along with other demands such as a R2,500 housing allowance, a R1,000 danger allowance, performance bonuses, bursary schemes, and permanent positions for certain workers. These demands could impact the R700 billion public sector wage bill and complicate Treasury’s fiscal policy. Both the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council and the Public Service & administration Department declined to comment.
[A traditional leader from Mthatha West, linked to alleged school extortion claims, was killed in a shootout with police’s National Intervention Unit . The traditional leader, who was not at home when police initially searched his house, later allegedly confronted the NIU base with two armed men. The confrontation escalated into gunfire, resulting in the alleged extortionist and his companions being killed.
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