A GOVT BENT ON CREATING A REVOLUTION!

Sir,

When His Majesty the King appointed Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini as prime minister; I was one of the many who breathed a sigh of relief because of knowing who Ambrose was; with some of us having spoken to him about being appointed to this position; because of where we were at the time; seeing the country fast sliding down to  banana kingdom; and soon to be involved in violent crisis because of how the people were being ill-treated !

But now, what we see daily is a picture of a country fast sliding to a situation where it may never come back, ever  again! The students are running amok around the country!  And there is a sound reason for them to do so! The public servants are now planning their own work stoppages at a  very crucial time when our schools are preparing for end of year examinations; while the police are threatening not to administer the invigilations  this year because they were not their appropriate amounts last year!

The question is:” why are we finding ourselves in such a mess? What has gone wrong?”
Some of us were still wondering as to how an institution which is charged with the protection and promotion of human rights can be the chief violator of these rights? I  am talking here about the ‘unlawful and unfair dismissals’  of  the two principal secretaries; who were recently demoted  without  the government having followed due processes! 

A demotion or dismissal must be an outcome of a fair process; the individual having been charged with a serious misconduct and properly found guilty  and the sanction be the one allowable in law. What happened to the two principal secretaries constitutes a serious violations of their basic human rights as well as being a gross violation of our laws.

 And for quite sometime, we had  been following developments surrounding the ill-treatment ( if not victimisation) of the Secretary General of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers  ( SNAT), Sikelela Dlamini, whose case is now before the International Labour Organisation ( ILO), a case which was totally unnecessary; except that we seem to have a worse government than we were hoping for.

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If we thought that this action was  serious enough to get government to sit up and began to implement what His Majesty the King had clearly told the World in Geneva about the country’s commitment to sound Social Dialogue and that his government was going to prioritise this process; then we must think again!

Because if what we are reading in the media about laws having been developed by the government; laws which are meant to take away basic human rights  from the Eswatini worker in the public sector, all these being developed by the government without them having  been passed  by Parliament; although they do not only violate the Constitution but a number of the International Charters and Conventions to which this country is a willing ratifier!

In fact, people do not know that our country is the top ratifier of the ILO Conventions in the world; but that it is also the worse violator of these conventions!
The recent changes in how the PSs are going to be evaluated  or appraised is an insult to these senior public servants.

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