The strike at the South African Post Office (Sapo) is over.

Sapo and the Communication Workers Union‚ Democratic Postal Workers Union and the SA Postal Workers Union reached a salary agreement on Wednesday.

The strike started on July 3. All Sapo employees will get a 6.5% salary increase‚ backdated to April 1.

The working hours for permanent part-time employees have been increased from 21.5 hours to 27.5 hours a week.

“Five hundred of these positions are earmarked to be phased in as permanent fulltime employees in due course‚” Sapo said.

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