A meeting between minister of justice and labour relations Wise Immanuel and magistrates has been set for Wednesday, following his withdrawal of an urgent application in the Windhoek High Court on Friday after magistrates denied under oath that they were on strike or engaged in a go-slow.
Immanuel invited the magistrates for a meeting according to a notice issued on Tuesday.
Since the start of the magistrates’ industrial “strike”, “Immanuel maintained that the magistrates’ demands for improved remunerations and their strike are mutually exclusive and, as such, must be handled separately,” his notice says.
He asserted that he would not engage the magistrates for as long as they were on what he labelled as “an illegal strike”.
Last week, the magistrates agreed to an increase in their remuneration.
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