Increase in the National Minimum Wage of South Africa - Effective: 1 March 2022

Minister of Employment and Labour, Thembelani Waltermade Nxesi on 7 February 2022 confirmed by means of a published gazette that the National Minimum Wage of South Africa as per the National Minimum Wage Act, No. 9 of 2018, will increase effectively on 1 March 2022. The increase affects both schedules 1 and 2 of the Act.