Minimum Wage 2025 South Africa 2025. The table below shows the public holidays which will be observed in south africa in 2025. The national minimum wage (nmw) commission has announced its proposed national minimum wage increase for 2025, recommending a hike of cpi+1.5%.

Department of employment and labour’s spokesperson, teboho thejane, says the commission has recommended the wage to increase by consumer price index plus 1.5. South africa’s national minimum wage commission proposed a 2025 increase tied to the consumer price index plus 1.5%, currently estimated around r28.50 per hour.