NEHAWU KZN Statement On The Bilateral Meeting With The National Public Services and Allied Workers Union (NAPSAWU)
Tuesday August 06, 2024NEHAWU KZN Statement On The Bilateral Meeting With The National Public Services and Allied Workers Union (NAPSAWU) STATEMENT ON THE BILATERAL MEETING WITH THE NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION [NAPSAWU]
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] in KwaZulu-Natal convened a bilateral meeting on the 3rd August 2024 with the National Public Service and Allied Workers Union [NAPSAWU] a union organizing public service workers in Swaziland.
The bilateral was convened with an aim of strengthening relations with NAPSAWU, and further intensify solidarity work against the despotic regime of Mswati and his brutal grip on political power, through the suppression of workers’ rights, repression, state violence and anti-democracy.
The meeting received a presentation from NAPSAWU on the state of the trade union movement and the public service; current balance of class forces, concrete political situation and the plight faced by the people in Swaziland. The inhumane conditions of abject poverty, inequality, unemployment and structural collapse of all social sectors, as a result of endemic corruption and opulence of the Monarch is indeed evident. The killing of innocent civilians, the arrest and torturing of activists that are calling for a democratic order in the country is now a norm.
The bilateral meeting resolved on the following immediate tasks;
• The province will conduct a picket outside Golela Border Gate, working with other progressive organisations, to mobilise support for the boycott of all Mswati aligned products and raise awareness on the plight of the people of Swaziland.
• The Province will continue to participate in all the programmes and campaigns aimed at dismantling King Mswati dictatorship.
• We will also participate in exchange of educational, political and ideological training programmes of leadership and shop stewards. This will include on how to we strengthen our workplace organizations and defend collective bargaining and workers’ rights that are under attack from the global neo-liberal forces.
• NEHAWU in the province will convene an Extended International Relations Committee, focusing on Swaziland, and invite the NAPSAWU.
Lastly, we call upon the South African government to side with the people and take drastic steps against the Tinkhundla Regime by amongst others recalling the South African Ambassador from Swaziland and closing the Swaziland Embassy Office in South Africa as a way of delegitimizing the murderous regime of Mswati.
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Issued by NEHAWU KZN Secretariat
Ayanda Zulu (Provincial Secretary) at 081 758 5199 or email: Ayandaz@nehawu.org.za or
Ntokozo Nxumalo (Provincial Deputy Secretary) at 0815255983 or email: Ntokozo@Nehawu.org.za
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