Eswatini Labour Insight

  TUCOSWA CALLS FOR A MASS PROTEST ON 28TH  OCTOBER 2021. The Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA) has added to the troubles of the increasingly under pressure Swaziland /eSwatini state led by King Mswati lll by calling for a protest action on Thursday 28th October 2021 TUCOSWA's call comes on the hills of the country having experienced a seven day mass protest by public transport workers who brought the country to a stand still with their protests calling for ,amongst others the end to police brutality in the everyday operations of transport workers, for the release of MPs Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube and  for better working conditions in the public transport  industry. This protest led to the death of one transport worker who was shot by the police and who was buried in the past weekend of 24th October. The TUCOSWA  protest action serve as a continuation of pressure on the King Mswati regime to embrace democratic change that has been going on for months, since early th

  Transport workers vow to take it up a notch if demands continue being ignored From the 12th October 2021 transport workers ,mainly the drivers and assistants of minibus transport , have been engaged in industrial action over a range of issues. The action was directed at the government ,the police and the owners of the minibuses, their employers and it was finally called off on Thursday 21 October. The Swazi Labour Insight (SLI) caught up with the Secretary General of the Swaziland Transport, Communications and Allied Workers Union (SWATCAWU) Comrade Stix Nkhambule (pictured below) to help the rest of us to appreciate their objectives when they engaged in the industrial action, their achievements in the action and what they intend to do going forward.          SWATCAWU Secretary General Comrade Stix Nkhambule (Picture courtesy of Times of eSwatini Facebook page) 1. Swazi Labour Insight : Thank you for taking the time to talk to us Comrade Secretary General Stix Nkhambule (SN): My pl

eSwatini state violently disrupts civil servants march Picture: Public sector workers running for cover as the armed forces rain stun grenades and teargas on them in order to disperse them in the capital city, Mbabane on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (Courtesy Picture) .  by Fundizwi Sikhondze        SLI Coordinator Wednesday ,20th October 2021 turned out to be a day filled with teargas smoke, blood and agony as the eSwatini state violently dispersed public service workers who had intended to  march and deliver a petition to the government in its capacity as their employer in the capital city ,Mbabane. The public service trade unions  are organised under a grouping called Public Sector Associations (PSA's) and comprises of  the National Public Service and Allied Workers Union (NAPSAWU), Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT), Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union (SWADNU),the Swaziland National Government Accounts Personnel (SNAGAP). The grievances they wanted to present to th