Two teacher unions are unlikely to join other public sector workers planning to embark on industrial action following Monday’s deadlock in wage negotiations.
While ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa may have claimed victory at the party's recent policy conference, Oscar van Heerden writes it was a pyrrhic victory because of the dark cloud of the Phala Phala farm matter.
As is so often the case ahead of ANC events, the noise could eventually dim down within the conference itself, with the outcomes not quite as radical as preliminary talk suggests.
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