SA ‘total shutdown’

Johannesburg- SOUTH Africa’s labour unions called for a total shutdown as the country’s public sector strike entered its second week on Thursday.

With no end in sight to the hullabaloo that has marked a week typified by school closures, disruption of hospital services, interruption of the courts and general bedlam at state institutions, workers showed no sign of letting up in their demands for an 8.

6 percent wage increase, more than double the rate of inflation, over the government offer of s...


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