Last updated: 26 may, 2009 - 05:32 GMT

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After only a fortnight in office, President Zuma's government is dealing with what trade unions have dubbed a "labour time bomb".

Among those on strike are state doctors who are demanding a 70% salary increase.

The labour unrest comes just before the publication of economic figures today which will show if sub-Saharan Africa's economic power house South Africa, is officially in recession or not.

The last time South Africa found itself in an impaired economic climate was 17 years ago.

The BBC's Mpho Lakaje reports from Johannesburg.

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