South Africa: Sadtu Insists On Higher Teachers' Pay Rise

Government hopes that a revised benefits offer to educators will avert a South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) strike may be dashed after the union dismissed the offer as "disappointing". Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine FraserMoleketi's offer came as Sadtu's showdown with her department gathered momentum. Sadtu chief negotiator Fikile Hugo said that his union, the largest in the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council, might strike if government did not announce "something tangible" at a meeting with union negotiators on Friday.