Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the R20 per hour minimum wage agreement between labour, business and government on Tuesday.

That is according to Dennis George, general secretary of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) on Wednesday.

Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa declined to confirm the signing late last night.

“Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will provide details on the status of discussions of (National Economic Development and Labour Council) Nedlac committee of principals on labour relations and wage inequality tomorrow (Wednesday),” he told Fin24.

The signing was supposed to have taken place at Tuesday's InvestSA lunch that President Jacob Zuma hosted in Cape Town ahead of his State of the Nation address on Thursday.

However, the Presidency announced on Tuesday that it was postponing the signing due to the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ request to delay the agreement until its central executive committee could review the new proposal.