A court order forcing government to pay about R300-million towards its outstanding bus subsidy payments was only an interim solution, the South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union (Satawu) said on Thursday.
"We're happy as an interim measure but to be honest we need a permanent solution," said Satawu's policy research officer Jane Barrett.
Barrett was speaking outside the Pretoria High Court after it ruled that the Gauteng transport department had until noon on Friday to pay about R300-million to the South African Bus Operators' Association (Saboa).
This amount was for subsidies for November 2008.
The application for payments for December, January, February and March would be heard next Wednesday.
The full amount outstanding to Saboa in Gauteng is about R1,2-billion.
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