Police stopped about 3,000 members of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) marching across Mbabane city centre this morning.
They had wanted to deliver a petition for a 4.5 percent salary increase, but were stopped from doing so.
Eventually they delivered a petition to the Minister of
Public Service, Magwebetane Mamba.
The teachers had wanted to march through the city centre
but were stopped and eventually allowed to go on an alternative route, far away
from the city centre.
The Centre for Human Rights, Swaziland, reports, ‘The
march was characterised by threats of violence from security agents. Two
workers were unlawfully detained by riot police, and this seemed to anger
workers who retaliated by throwing stones at the police vehicles into which the
two were taken. They were promptly released and the march continued.’
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