Eswatini Labour Insight

  Minister of Public Service Mabulala Maseko publicly threatens the  expulsion public threat against public service workers fighting for their rights Fundizwi Sikhondze   eSwatini Public Services Minister Mabulala Maseko (L), The eSwatini Flag (R). The eSwatini Minister of Public Service Mabulala Maseko today (Tuesday 14th December 2021) issued a threat to public servants who seek to exercise their trade union and workers rights to fight for a salary review from the government of eSwatini. The Minister was speaking on the national radio station during the morning current affairs programme "Letishisako".  Maseko accused civil servants of having joined the fight for political parties and has asked them to leave the public service if they want to pursue political party related matters. The Minister promised to take drastic measures (nalo lilahle kubo or A fireball is coming their way) against civil servants who they (as government) suspect to be members of political organisation

  eSwatini government moves to derecognise public sector trade unions. Fundizwi Sikhondze Pic: eSwatini Police violently dispersing 22 October 2021 PSA protest in Mbabane (Courtesy Picture) In the midst of efforts to reconcile warrying forces inside eSwatini by stakeholders such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ,the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) to have eSwatini attain lasting peace after a year filled with civil unrest , the government is reported to be making moves to derecognise Public Sector Associations (PSAs).  This moves is definitely  set to lead to hostilities with trade unions and by extension with civil servants, the international trade union movement reminiscent of previous instances where tensions played out in the international platforms such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO) meetings in Geneva. In previous occasions eSwatini temporarily lost access to the markets in the United States of America (USA) when the USA governme