The government could not go back on its 4.7% wage increase offer, as finance minister Enoch Godongwana did last week, because “the law states that the last offer stands”, the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) said on Sunday.

The council said it thought Godongwana might have misspoken, but a labour analyst and DA MP said it was more likely that the state had realised it could not afford the offer and was backing out...

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