The government has offered public servants the standard 1.5% "pay progression" increase, which is automatically due to all public servants, and a cash gratuity of nearly R1,000 in its latest offer to unions in wage talks.

However, the government has refused to budge on the bigger question of a cost-of-living wage increase, which it still says is frozen at zero...

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