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Government and unions at loggerheads over wage bill cuts

The most important announcement that Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni made in his Budget 2020 speech was the plan to reduce the public sector wage bill by about R160 billion over three years to decrease the budget deficit, according to Prof Sean Gossel, research director at the University of Cape Town. This will entail cuts of R55

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