Staff of the Mhlontlo local municipality in the cash-strapped Eastern Cape must have been delighted to get increases, back-dated and across the board, but after some months, the council said it had made a mistake.
National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa executive director, Basil Manuel, told Eyewitness News that organised labour declared a deadlock, after government brought consultative issues into the collective bargaining process.
Congress had been interdicted with a clear instruction from the same court that it could only go ahead if all constitutional directives had been adhered to.