MBABANE: Sikelela Dlamini, the Secretary General of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) says Government has indicated that there would be no salary increase for civil servants until 2024.
Speaking to this Swaziland News, the SNAT Secretary General said it was worrying that Government claimed to have exhausted funds in the rehabilitation of the country's road network yet the Salary Review was supposed to be planned for since 2016.
“Government has since promised to engage a consultant that will look into the salary review exercise in the next financial year, which means the recommendations of that consultant are likely to be implemented in the 2023/24 financial year.We are calling for an extraordinary meeting for all PSA's to be held at the SNAT Centre on the 26 February", said the SNAT Secretary General.
Sipho Tsabedze, the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service had not responded to our questionnaire at the time of compiling this report.
Despite collecting taxes from the citizens, the eSwatini Government has refused to raise salaries for civil servants since 2016.
Civil servants during a protest.