It came days after police
shot live ammunition into a crowd of schoolteachers who were also
demonstrating about salaries.
It happened on Wednesday
(29 August 2018) when hundreds of trade unionists led by the Swaziland
Democratic Nurses Union (SWADNU) marched through Mbabane. They were going to
the Ministries of Public Service and
Health to deliver petitions.
The Times reported ‘tensions
reached beyond boiling point’ when there was a dispute between police and union
leaders about the route they were allowed to follow.
It said some nurses ‘claimed
that police manhandled and used tasers on them during their march to the two
ministries’.
One nurse identified a
police officer who she said had attacked her with a taser. The attack was
reported to Mbabane Police Deputy Station Commander Amos Dlamini.
A taser
is a weapon
that gives someone an electric shock and makes them unable to move for a short
time.
Public service workers are
in dispute with the government of Swaziland,
recently renamed Eswatini by the kingdom’s absolute monarch King Mswati III.
They have been offered zero percent increase in their annual cost of living
allowances.
See also
Swaziland
Teacher Who Stopped Police Chief Shooting Into Unarmed Crowd Appears in Court
Swaziland
Police Shoot, Wound Teacher During Protest Over Pay, Tensions High on Eve of
National Election
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