The South African Local Government Association (Salga) was expected to approach the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday to halt a countrywide municipal workers strike.
Municipal services were affected nation-wide when the strike over pay scales started on Monday.
Salga warned, however, that it would not be able to increase salaries as required.
It said that if it acceded to the South African Municipal Workers Union's (Samwu) demands, it would not have money left to pay for the services supplied by municipalities.
Salga said that it would seek an interdict on Tuesday to halt the strike.
This was after a similar interdict was struck off the court roll on Saturday as it was not considered urgent.
Samwu was pushing for a range of demands, mostly related to getting market-related salaries for municipal workers.
Several people were arrested after the labour action turned violent in East London in the Eastern Cape.
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