The President of the Swaziland Association of Teachers
(SNAT) Sibongile Mazibuko has been fired by the Swaziland Government.
Mazibuko who was deputy principal of SOS Primary in
Mbabane was together with more than 100 other SNAT members dismissed for
engaging in the teachers’ pay strike that has just entered its fifth week.
The sacking comes as the Swazi Government cracks down on
the strikers. Despite the intimidation of the Ministry of Education, teachers
have refused to be forced back to work. They want a 4.5 percent pay increase.
The Centre for Human Rights, Swaziland, reports that in
some schools in Swaziland the majority of teachers have been fired and the schools
have been closed. Minister of Education Wilson Ntshangase said he had
newly-qualified and unemployed teachers ready to take the place of the sacked
workers.
Meanwhile, a hearing to get the Industrial Court to order
the government to halt the dismissals was postponed today (2 August 2012) and will
resume tomorrow, when teachers are also expected to march on the Ministry of
Education to demand the reinstatement of all sacked teachers.
See also
STRIKING SWAZILAND TEACHERS SACKED
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