The cash-strapped government has seven days to respond to a list of demands by the Public Servants Association (PSA), whose members marched to National Treasury offices in Pretoria on Thursday calling for above-inflation increases.

In a show of force, thousands went on marches across the country to register their unhappiness over the government’s unilateral implementation of a 3% wage offer for the country’s more than 1.3-million public servants...

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