The eight-day strike at SA Airways is over after unions settled for the same wage offer that was made before the strike began.

Employees will get 5.9% wage increase deferred to February 2020. In the original offer made on the eve of the strike, SAA had proposed that the wage increase be deferred to April 2020. However, the wage offer and the back pay, which will date back to April 1 2019, is “subject to the availability of funding” being obtained for this purpose from SAA...

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