Opinion

It’s not the wage bill that’s the problem, it’s the austerity budget

16 May 2021 - 00:00

By Duma Gqubule

After 27 years of neoliberal restructuring of the state, negotiations between public sector workers and their employer reached their lowest point this week since the end of apartheid, writes Duma Gqubule.

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