The Acting Tshwane Mayor Abel Tau has conceded that their decision to approve an 18% salary increase for senior staff was an oversight.

“Two wrongs will never make a right at all times will always take responsibility unfortunately that means we have mechanisms to remedy any challenge that we face and I don’t think an illegal strike is one unfortunately we have identified where the glitches were and we will obviously take corrective action. The most important issue here is that when the issue was picked up we were there as politicians opened to negotiation and look at how we remedy the situation unfortunately SAMWU didn’t want to come to the table.”

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However, calm has been restored in the city centre after three days of disruptions due to the municipal worker’s protest.

City of Tshwane workers have been on strike since Monday. They are demanding an 18% salary increase after management approved the wage hikes for executives by the same margin.

Parties involved in negotiations to end the strike are meeting in a conciliation process at the bargaining council in Centurion, south of the City.

Tau says he expects the issue to be resolved soon.