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PSAS THREATEN TO FORCE WORKERS TO JOIN STRIKE

By Mbono Mdluli | 2019-09-25

THE Public Sector Associations (PSAs) have accepted that their first day of the strike action was a flop.

As a result the PSAs are now planning for possible ways to force workers to take part in the strike, especially for the mother of all demonstrations taking place today in the capital, Mbabane.

The civil servants stated at the High Court premises yesterday that they were disappointed on what happened on Monday because there were some workers that were at work, while others were out on strike.

TUCOSWA Deputy Secretary General Muzi Mhlanga said it was a pity because the workers who were at work would also benefit when they got the cost of living Adjustment (CoLA) from government.

National Public Servants and Allied Workers Union (NAPSAWU) President Oscar Nkambule also stated that civil servants were at work.

Mhlanga said the problem with Emaswati was fear. He said Emaswati feared almost anything and everything.

That, according to Mhlanga, had to change if Emaswati wanted to achieve something. He said the people of countries such as France and Hong Kong were able to protest against feared regimes to state their grievances, but Emaswati were afraid to face a more lenient regime. He called for change in doing things from Emaswati.

Swaziland National Association of Government Accounting Personnel (SNAGAP) Deputy President Moses Tsabedze said it was also the same case among the government accountants.

He said on Monday, he was surprised to find that his colleagues were working.

When he arrived in the office, he was told by his human resources officer that he had to fill in a certain form to show that he was present.

When he enquired about the form, Tsabedze said he was told that they had to fill up the forms, as per the instructions of Accountant General Dumisile Ngwenya.

Tsabedze said he told the human resources officer that he would not fill the form because it was illegal.

“I asked some of my colleagues if they filled the forms, they told me that they did so because they were afraid of the consequences, if they did not fill the forms,” Tsabedze said.

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