Government workers, including teachers, nurses, and other personnel walked out on their job and threatened the government of South Africa with nationwide strike to increase their wages.

Furthermore, on Wednesday, almost 1.3 million government workers strike and bringing about all necessary services to freeze. The strike arises when talks ruined down over increasing their wages. Moreover, unions had insisted an 8.6 percent increase in their wages, while the negotiators of the government pushed to an increase of simply seven percent, down with a little allowance for housing.

In addition, the Independent Labour Caucus (ILC) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) discarded the new offer of the government before taking to the streets. According to secretary general of South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), Mugwene Maluleke, beginning Wednesday, strike for unions of public service until such period that the manager agrees to the needs of the workers.

On the other hand, Reuters said that a amidst level of public servants in South Africa receives almost 8,800 rand ($1,200) every month, compared to the 6,383 rand of the national average wage, yet several economists say that the volume of workers of the government stay underpaid.

However, strikes are annually happen in South Africa, and have become part of their culture for a country governed by a freedom movement, the African National Congress of Nelson Mandela, that takes pleasure from a solid support from labor unions.

Moreover, there is still a strike season, in which all from the police officers to workers of electric utility to members of the Army of the nation march in protest for greater wages. Jacob Zuma, the recent president, said that he himself drove to power in the elections in 2008 on the foundation of support from  the biggest group of unions.