TEX RAY EX-WORKERS: PHANSI NGAHULUMENDE

MANZINI – Over 1 000 former workers of Tex Ray Swaziland in Matsapha yesterday turned a meeting convened to discuss their social welfare into a ‘political rally’.

They burst into song to belittle the defunct Imbokodvo National Movement and government.
Winnie Magagula, Minister of Labour and Social Security, was not spared the vitriol.
They said they were sick and tired of working for peanuts just to serve the interests of the Imbokodvo National Movement.

This, they said while singing and dancing around the fully packed Prince Mfanyana Hall in Manzini where the meeting convened by the Amalgamated Trade Unions of Swaziland (ATUSWA) was held.
The song was titled: “Sesidziniwe kusebenzela Imbokodvo” (we are sick and tired of working for Imbokodvo).

Imbokodvo National Movement was a political party that existed in the country from 1964 to 1973 when political parties were banned in terms of the King’s Proclamation of April 12.
The party was formed by the Swazi National Council, which was the advisory body to King Sobhuza, with the King being instrumental in its formation.
It won the first democratic election in Swaziland held in 1967 and also won the second parliamentary election in 1972. However, Prince Mfanasibili mentioned at some point that the central government was still using policies of the Imbokodvo National Movement.

The prince was a former member of the party.
Meanwhile, the ex-workers of Tex Ray, a textile company whose main branch was closed in 2015 due to loss of the American market known as AGOA, chanted political slogans at their meetings.  About 99 per cent of them were women.
They composed a song about Magagula, Minister of Labour and Social Security, whose name featured prominently at the meeting.

The song about the minister was titled: “Ye Winnie, ufuna sikwenzele ntoni na?” (Winnie, what do you want us to do for you?)
While they were singing about the minister, they uttered unpalatable words, which will not be repeated here.

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