01/04/2026
Publication: CWAO
Author: Campaign Leaders
R30.23 per hour is a POVERTY wage!
The new national minimum wage is R30.23 per hour!
Demand the new national minimum wage if you are earning less!
From the 1st March 2026, the national minimum wage has been increased to R30.23 per hour for all workers, except EPWP workers who get less.
EPWP workers must be paid a minimum of R16.62 per hour.
These are pathetically low wages. Yet many workers are not earning even these low wages. Bosses are ignoring the National Minimum Wage Act. Trade unions are also ignoring minimum wage workers. But many families and whole communities depend on the low wages that many workers earn. Low wages also mean more profit for the bosses.
For these reasons, it is important that workers fight to get at least the minimum wages in the law.
