While Gauteng finance MEC Mandla Nkomfe says the government will consider striking public servants pay demands, the workers remained adamant they would keep striking today.

"It's in everybody's interest that we resolve this strike. So we will consider this proposal," Nkomfe told about 1500 civil workers who marched through the streets of Johannesburg yesterday.

The Cosatu-affiliated civil servants delivered memorandums to the Gauteng department of finance, the department of housing in Sauer Street and the Johannesburg High Court. They vowed to go on picketing outside schools and hospitals.

The marching crowd chanted: "Senzeni na, senzeni na?" (what did we do wrong, what did we do wrong?).

The march proceeded peacefully down Bree Street to the Johannesburg High Court for a memorandum of grievances to be handed over.

The police were out in force to bar entrance to the court.

Cosatu Gauteng provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile told the crowd: "We want the people who are the face of service delivery to smile.

"We don't want the people of South Africa to blame us. They must blame government."

The singing crowd then moved under police escort down Bree Street as shop owners closed their doors - and watched the protestors through their windows.