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Public sector workers threaten nationwide strike

    JOHANNESBURG

    Public sector workers in Swaziland have threatened to embark on a nationwide strike on Thursday to protest salary increases for members of parliament and cabinet ministers following a government challenge to the right of the Swaziland National Association of Civil Servants to exist as a union, South African news reports said on Wednesday.

    The daily, 'Business Day', said the action by public servants, nurses and teachers had been precipitated by a public servants strike in South Africa last week. Information Minister Mgwagwa Mdluli, himself a former executive of the association, said its "negligible" membership fell far short of a membership of at least one-fifth of the workforce of a represented industrial or public sector - the legal requirement for union recognition by the government.

    At the latest count, the newspaper said, about 17,000 public servants were employed in Swaliand.

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