[TOP STORY] Proposed budget cuts: Coastu to meet urgently with government

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‘Tinkering with the wage bill, what you're paying nurses and police officers, is not going to resolve Transnet and Eskom and so on. Yes, it might reduce the fiscal pressures for a year, but you'll be back in the very same crisis the following year,’ says Matthew Parks, parliamentary coordinator for the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
11 Sep 2023 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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