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Swazi Regime Starts to Unravel: The Democratic Movement Gathers Pace!
The Revolution Will Not Be Imported!
Once again the Trade Union Movement has taken the lead in pushing forward the democratic agenda in Swaziland. The protests that have unfolded this week, starting on June 22 led by the Swaziland National Association of Teachers, and joined by the Swaziland Federation of Labour and the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (soon to be merged into a single federation) have shown the crucial role of organised labour in challenging the regime. [Lire]
Swaziland Democracy Campaign - 27 June 2011

Swazi Trade Unions Call for Global Solidarity Conférence During the International Labour Conference in Geneva
The Swazi trade union movement; SFTU, SFL (under the umbrella of Trade Union Congress of Swaziland - TUCOSWA) take this opportunity to pronounce its desire to take the Swazi struggle to new heights on a global scale. In doing so, we take pride in the renewed momentum inside Swaziland owing to the sacrifices by workers and the rest of the struggling and progressive fraternity of our country. [Lire]
20 May 2011

SDC Press Statement on Swaziland May Day
The Swaziland Democracy Campaign-SDC congratulates the emergence of the new unified trade union centre the TRADE UNION CONGRESS OF SWAZILAND (TUCOSWA) which was formally and appropriately launched on May Day in Swaziland. We wish all those concerned, and especially the new leadership of the federation, the warmest solidarity greetings and strength for the coming struggles that they will face. [Lire]
Swaziland Democracy Campaign - 5 May 2011

Stop the Repression ; clampdown no solution says ACTSA
The government of Swaziland has used intimidation, arrests, beatings, tear gas and water cannon against its own citizens to deny them the right of peaceful protest. They have not addressed the grievances and demands for democratic reform, economic and social rights. [Lire]
Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) - 14 avril 2011

Statement by ITUC-Africa on the current situation in Swaziland
At the end of its General Council held in Accra from April 11 to 12, 2011, at which it reaffirmed its commitment to the struggle for democracy in Africa, the African Regional Organization of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has received disturbing information about the Swaziland Government’s clamp-down on trade unionists and other pro-democracy campaigners who are demanding the institution of genuine constitutional multi-party democracy in Swaziland. There are reports that serious human and civil liberties infractions against these activists and other civilians are being committed by the Swazi government and its security agencies. [Lire]
CSI Afrique / ITUC Africa - 12 April 2011

SDC congratulates courageous Swazis
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Swaziland Democracy Campaign - 18 March 2011

SNUS’s statement on tomorrow’s uprising
The Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS) would like to declaire to the world that the time for the seizure of power has arrived in Swaziland. [Lire]
Swaziland national union of students - 16 March 2011

Swaziland Natinal Union of Students (SNUS) statement on 20th black Wednesday
On November 14 1990, the Swazi government dispatched armed police and military units to the campus to disperse peaceful boycotting students. It was a crackdown of unprecedented violence in the history of the university. In the ensuing melee several students were crippled for life, hundreds injured and one woman successfully sued the government for the loss of an eye. Our brothers and sisters were subjected to the most inhuman and vicious violence of mankind. [Lire]
Swaziland national union of students - 14 November 2010

Declaration
Swaziland Democracy Campaign
A Joint Swaziland-South Africa Campaign for Democracy in Swaziland
We the undersigned wish to publicly endorse this founding declaration of the Swaziland Democracy Campaign because we continue to be deeply concerned about the worsening humanitarian, political,economic and social crisis in Swaziland. The inactivity and silence of our leaders in South Africa, in the SADC and across the Continent and beyond on the crisis in Swaziland must change. Their silence is protecting this most undemocratic regime. It is time to speak out. The people of Swaziland need our support. [Lire]
10 February 2010

The ILO attacks the lack of rights in Swaziland
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has launched a fierce attack on the Swazi Government in a recent report of the ILO Committee on the Application of Standards. The document stressed the unacceptable lack of human rights in Swaziland and demanded the Swazi Government to abolish the 1973 Royal Decree, which restricted political and civil liberties, and to amend both the Industrial Relations Act and the 1963 Public Order Act. [Lire]
Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) - 26 June 2009

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Une campagne pour faire connaître la répression qui sévit au Swaziland - 6 mai 2010 - Interview de Mduduzi C. Gina (SFTU- Swaziland) - Les organisations syndicales du Swaziland sont en première ligne de la Campagne pour la démocratie au Swaziland (Swaziland Democracy Campaign) lancée en février pour encourager le changement dans l’une des dernières monarchies absolues du monde. Elle rassemble des organisations de la société civile, des défenseurs des droits humains, des syndicats et des partis politiques interdits. La campagne tente d’obtenir un soutien international en faveur de la démocratie dans un petit pays rarement sous les feux des projecteurs. Comme l’explique Mduduzi C. Gina, secrétaire général de la Fédération des syndicats du Swaziland (SFTU), les organisateurs de la campagne réclament la fin des lois abusives contre le terrorisme et des restrictions qui pèsent sur les médias et sur les rassemblements politiques. Ils exigent la tenue d’élections multipartites et envisagent . l’adoption de sanctions internationales ciblées contre la clique dirigeante entourant la famille royale si les autorités refusent de bouger. - Source : ITUC-CSI

Swaziland : l’envers répressif d’une monarchie absolue - 31 mai 2009 - Pauvreté et Sida font des ravages parmi les "sujets" de la royauté swazie. Alors que l’état d’urgence subsiste depuis 35 ans et que les partis politiques restent interdits, les syndicats mènent la lutte pour une démocratie pluraliste et plus de justice sociale. Reportage et Témoignages. - Source : Confédération syndicale internationale

Swaziland: the repressive side of an absolute monarchy - 30 May 2009 - The "subjects" of the Swazi monarchy are ravaged by poverty and AIDS. Amid a state of emergency that has lasted for 35 years, and under which political parties are banned, the trade unions are heading the fight for a multi-party democracy and greater social justice. Report and firsthand accounts. - Source : International Trade Union Confederation

Southern African Social Forum Nearly Marred By Ban: Cosatu Not Allowed To Attend - 18 octobre 2008 - By Faith ka-Manzi – “Destroy structures that give privileges to a few”, shouted Mr. Thomas Deve during the highly charged opening of the Southern African Social Forum (SASF) at the Bosco grounds in Manzini in the small Kingdom of Swaziland on October 16. He appealed to delegates of the forum - dubbed the ‘merchants of hope’ - not to be afraid to proclaim their struggles, and that “peoples forces will not be stopped by anyone”. Deve is a member of the Zimbabwe Social Forum. - Source : Centre for Civil Society

Swaziland: Worst labour strife in a decade - 6 March 2008 - A bloody week of the worst labour strife in a decade has exposed cracks in the Swazi government’s poverty-alleviation plan of creating thousands of low-paying jobs by promoting a textile industry. In the strike action, which began on 3 March, workers participating in peaceful marches to demand better salaries have been teargassed and beaten by police, and at least a dozen have reportedly been injured. More than 16,000 workers, most of them women, have been affected by the strike action. - Source : IRIN Africa

Swaziland : Les chiffres moyens du PNB cachent un taux de pauvreté de 70% ! - 26 février 2007 - Au Swaziland, sous la coupe du monarque absolu Mswati III, , Les syndicats font face à des attaques acharnées de la part du gouvernement. Violations des droits syndicaux (notamment dans les zones franches), pauvreté et inégalité, sida… Interview de Jan Sithole, secrétaire général de la SFTU. - Source : ITUC-CSI

Swaziland : une dictature royale - 20 avril 2006 - Le monarque du Swaziland est connu pour son goût du luxe, des voitures et des femmes ce qui fait de belles photos pour les magazines. On connaît moins les conditions des sujets de ce monarque absolu, encore moins la répression qui s’abat sur ceux qui osent parler de démocratie. - Source : Renapas

Swaziland: A tiny kingdom with a big problem - 3 November 2005 - Interview with Bongani Masuku, Secretary General of the Swaziland Solidarity Network - firebomb attack on a policeman last Friday was the latest in a series of six similar explosions targeting state institutions that have hit the tiny mountain kingdom of Swaziland in the last month. The attacks have been blamed by Africa’s last remaining ruling monarchy on banned political groups and come at a time when there is growing criticism of King Mswati III’s extravagant lifestyle in parallel with widespread impoverishment and the world’s highest known rates of HIV/AIDS infection. - Source : Pambazuka News