Mayhem, then Christmas bonanza for Tshwane workers
(World News South Africa)

Pretoria - A staggering R500million - that´s the combined estimated amount of money likely to be paid out to more than 20000 City of Tshwane workers as a festive gift next month. Thousands of workers yesterday greeted with resounding applause the news that they would be paid out lump sums yet again by the end of the year. The windfall will follow the initial R318m the City paid its workforce `out of its own discretion and to apologise` to them after they went on strike for a week in July. Although the cost of payments to the City was not divulged to workers, the Pretoria News was told that during the negotiations, the figure bandied about was in the region of R500m....