Eswatini Labour Insight

ATUSWA Secretary General Comrade Wander Mkhonza addressing the IndustriALL Mid Term Policy Conference in Capetown ,South Africa (Picture courtesy of IndustriALL) Written by Fundizwi Sikhondze  The Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA) Secretary General Comrade Wander Mkhonza ,on Tuesday 20th June 2023, addressed the midterm policy conference of the IndustriALL Global Union currently sitting in Cape Town, South Africa where he called for more attention to be bestowed to the repressed workers in Swaziland by the global union. ATUSWA together with the Swaziland Electricity Supply and Maintenance Workers Union (SESMAWU) are the two Swaziland affiliates of the IndustriALL Global Union. Secretary General Wander drew the conference's attention to the repression that workers face in Swaziland through state repression as well as through the courts. He credited the notorious 1973 decree as the source of the repression in the country to the extent that even when laws are crafted an es

  Eswatini Prime Minister Sipho Cleopas Dlamini addressing the ILO World of Work Summit during the International Labour Conference 2023 in Geneva Switzerland (Picture credit ILO). Eswatini Prime Minister criticises the ILO unequal governance and one size fits all approach to tackling challenges The Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini, on Thursday 15 th June 2023, addressed the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) World of Work Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. The summit formed a part of the ILO’s International Labour Conference which ends on the 16 th June and the summit’s theme was “Social Justice For All”. In his address Prime Minister Dlamini firstly welcomed the initiative seeking to strengthen partnerships and enhance collaborations and cooperation between the ILO, its tripartite constituents (Employers, Governments and Workers), the wider United Nations multi-lateral system and other allied partners in order to promote policy coherence in the quest for social justice fo

  Written by Fundizwi Sikhondze - Publishing Editor The annual International Labour Organisation's (ILO) International Labour Conference (ILC) kicked off in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday 05 June 2023. The Eswatini government being one of the governments of high interest having been condemned to the special paragraph list of countries that habitually contravenes the international labour standards seems to have pulled all stops to ensure they defend against any move to condemn the country into the special paragraph this time around. The government delegation comprises of fourteen officials ,interestingly inclusive of two legal advisors in the form of one David Millin from the kings office and Zandile Dlamini who is accredited as the Deputy Attorney General. The Prime Minister Sipho Cleopas Dlamini (as a 15th member) is also said to be on the way to the conference after completing his mission at the COMESA conference. The complete Eswatini delegation comprises of Government representa