The government and public-sector unions are to meet again this week on deadlocked wage talks and an impending strike by public servants.
The talks were needed to ”refine issues around the agreement on the table” and to hear ”specific demands from unions”, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Wednesday.
Bilateral meetings would take place with independent unions individually and unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) as a group, she said in Johannesburg.
Last week, all the public-sector unions decided on joint labour action to start next Friday.
Collectively, they represent more than a million public-service workers.
Fraser-Moleketi said she was still positive the matter could be resolved.
”We need to come together and solve this,” she said.
The government has offered a 6% wage increase while unions are demanding 12%. — Sapa