The one-day nationwide strike by thousands of state workers on Wednesday could not have happened at a worse time for SA, which is struggling to contain the economic fallout from lockdown measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.   

Teachers, nurses, doctors and police officers took to the streets of Johannesburg and other cities to express their discontent at the government’s failure to honour a 2018 agreement to pay wage increases...

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