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Civil servants strike threatens to close border posts

    JOHANNESBURG

    A proposed strike by government workers in South Africa's Mpumalanga province is threatening to close border posts between Mozambique and Swaziland, media reports said on Wednesday.

    A spokesman for the public services association in the province was quoted as saying that the border posts would be closed for three hours on Friday as part of a national pay strike by civil servants. The spokesman said that if their demands were not met they would close the borders altogether next Tuesday. "On 2 August no one is going to work at the border post unless the government agrees to our demands," he said.

    The civil servants are demanding a 10 percent increase, So far, the government has offered a 6 percent increase.

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