This week’s public sector wage bill court case has again brought to the fore the lack of leadership in government, at a time when SA is grappling with its biggest economic crisis in the middle of a deadly pandemic.

After months of government fighting not to have to implement the final leg of the 2018 wage deal the two departments responsible — Treasury and public service & administration — found themselves on opposite sides...

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