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Johannesburg - A wage agreement was signed on Wednesday afternoon signalling the official end of a strike over pay at 2010 Soccer World Cup stadiums.
"It has been signed," Safcec spokesperson Schalk Ackerman said shortly after 17:30.
He said the mood was "quite jubilant from the workforce."
The SA Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (Safcec) was "satisfied" with the agreement, he said.
The signing of the agreement at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration's Johannesburg offices was delayed for over four hours.
Earlier an official, who could not be named, told journalists that language, grammatical and literacy problems had been at the centre of the delay.
An agreement was reached in the early hours of Wednesday morning for a 12 percent wage increase, ending the week-long strike at World Cup construction sites around the country.
About 70 000 workers from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Building Construction and Allied Workers Union (BCAWU) downed tools during the strike.