Eswatini Labour Insight

Picture: NAPSAWU President Oscar Nkambule addressing delegates of the NAPSAWU Midterm Conference in April 2022. Written by Fundizwi Sikhondze  The National Public Service and Allied Workers Union (NAPSAWU) President Oscar Nkambule recently urged members of NAPSAWU to fight so that wealth can be shifted from the Tinkhundla looters to the working class and its allies. The president was speaking to delegates at the NAPSAWU Midterm Conference held in Matsapha and that sat on the 21st and 22nd April 2022. The conference was held under the theme, "Building the union capacity to improve workers conditions and to deepen working class consciousness".  The midterm conference was attended by over 200 delegates of NAPSAWU representing branches and structures from the length and breath of the country. In attendance were also local and international guests that included representatives from the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA), the Swaziland National Government Accountants Perso...

  Picture: SWADNU President Welcome Mdluli addressing workers (Nurses) during the International Nurses Day gathering hosted by SWADNU on 12 May 2022 in eNhlangano. Written by Fundizwi Sikhondze The president of the Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union (SWADNU) Welcome Mdluli threw a challenge to SWADNU members to stand up and defend their workplace and human rights against the exploitative Tinkhundla government. The president was speaking during a gathering of the nurses union ,in the southern town of eNhlangano on the 12th May 2022, to mark the International Nurses Day 2022 (#IND2022). In his impassionate address he first addressed the lack of unity within SWADNU and alerted attendees of the #IND2022 gathering that the union cannot afford to go to court every other day ,saying "We are brothers and sisters we cannot afford to fight each other forever ".  The president then threw the gauntlet to the nurses imploring them to act in the face of their conditions of employment slippi...

  TEXTILE WORKERS IN NHLANGANO TOWN ,ESWATINI  VOW TO CONTINUE THEIR E15.00 AN HOUR STRUGGLE. Fundizwi Sikhondze Coordinator 02 May 2022 Textile workers in their mass meeting on 02 May 2022 at Tfokotani outside eNhlangano Workers in the garment/textile sector today in eNhlangano, in the south of eSwatini/Swaziland, spoke unanimously that their strike action was continuing and therefore they were not going back to work until they were paid as per their demanded E15 per an hour. The workers are organised by the Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA). The estimated 1500 workers held their mass meeting on the grounds of the Tfokotane Community Centre a few kilometres away from the Mahamba border, with at least a few thousand of them having walked on foot from eight kilometres away in Nhlangano town. Despite their challenging circumstances having gone the first month without income the spirit of the workers was high as they chanted slogans to show their support of the re...