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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>South Africa\u2019s 1.3-million government workers demanding a 12% pay hike say they are preparing for a long round of talks from Tuesday after the state, grappling with a R700bn-plus public sector wage bill, offered unions a 3% rise recently.<\/p>\n

Other demands for 2025\/26 by public servants, including teachers, nurses and police, are for:<\/p>\n

a R2,500 housing allowance increment across the board;<\/p>\n

a nearly twofold rise in the danger allowance to R1,000;<\/p>\n

a performance bonus;<\/p>\n

bursary schemes for dependants of employees; and<\/p>\n

permanent employment for education\/teacher assistants, community health workers and reservists.<\/p>\n

Consumer inflation eased for a third month running to 4.4% in August from 4.6% in July.<\/p>\n

The pay demands have been described as the toughest test yet for the new minister of public service & administration, Mzamo Buthelezi.<\/p>\n

Contacted for comment on Monday, Buthelezi said parties would meet at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) from Tuesday. He would not comment on his department\u2019s 3% offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch discussions are very sensitive. We want to guard the integrity of the process. But when a deal is reached, it will be communicated publicly,\u201d said Buthelezi.<\/p>\n

Public Servants Association GM Reuben Maleka, representing more than 245,000 government workers, said: \u201cThe employer is offering us 3%. We foresee a long negotiation process ahead. Marathon talks will begin from Tuesday where there will be exchanges of response along the lines of what has been offered and where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chief negotiator for Cosatu\u2019s public sector unions, Simon Hlungwani, could not be reached immediately for comment.<\/p>\n

The talks for the 2025\/26 year come after public servants got a 4.7% pay rise on April 1, in line with a wage deal signed by the government and four unions at the PSCBC in Pretoria in March 2023. It excludes senior management. The two-year pay deal translated into public servants getting a pay rise of 7.5% in 2023\/24 and projected consumer price inflation for 2024\/25.<\/p>\n

In the 2024 Budget Review, the government pencilled in a total wage bill of just more than R750bn for 2025\/26, about 4.5% higher than the previous year\u2019s.<\/p>\n

In his budget speech in February, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said the government was exploring other measures to be tabled in the bargaining council \u201cas part of a broader discussion on containing wage bill growth\u201d.<\/p>\n

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