It is to support the Global Week of Action for Democracy in Swaziland and will take place on 6 September.
It has also announced support for a picket at the Swazi Consulate
in Johannesburg on the same day.
In a statement COSATU said Swazi
people had rejected the so-called tinkhundla elections currently taking place
in Swaziland as undemocratic and a ‘royal circus’. It said the elections were, ‘managed
by an incompetent, discredited and sycophantic bunch of [King] Mswati’s puppets
called the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC).’
King Mwsati rules Swaziland as sub-Saharan Africa’s last
absolute monarch. All political parties are banned from the election and the
parliament is widely seen outside of Swaziland as powerless.
Separately, a march is planned in the Swaziland capital Mbabane,
jointly organised by the Swaziland National Union of Students, the Swaziland
United Democratic Front (SUDF) and the Swaziland Democracy Campaign (SDC), on 5
September 2013.
In a statement, organisers predicted 10,000 people would
take part in the march.
On 6 September, the SUDF and the SDC also plan to run
what is billed as a ‘people’s summit’ in Manzini with the intention ‘to profile
the boycott of the Tinkhundla election and provide an alternative’.
See also
MASS ACTION FOR DEMOCRACY PLANNED
http://swazimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/mass-action-for-democracy-planned.html
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