The recent appointment on the seven-member panel of experts by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, contains the nation debating the value and relevance of your proposed minimum wage for everyone workers. With this debate, it may be necessary to consider sectors which can be already paying their workers well above minimum wage.
More than eight million formal sector workers in Africa have already been protected by a few form of ministerial sectoral determination, union agreement or bargaining council agreement.
If one assumes that your informal sector and self-employed personnel are not dependent any determination on minimum wages, its clear that about 80% or over off staff is already covered.
Sectoral determinations
South Africa already has sectoral determinations for the minimum wages of vulnerable workers, (such as domestic and farm workers) in addition to some informal sector workers (for example taxi drivers and rank marshals). It is estimated that sectoral determinations
