Swaziland Youth Congress - PYL

22/05/2026

SWAYOCO invite you to a scheduled discussion on Revolutionary discipline under the following details;

Date: 24 May 2026
Time: 20:00
Platform: Zoom, SWAYOCO WhatsApp page and page

19/05/2026

INPUT | Issue No. 3 is now available. 📄

Insika Yelusha — A Battle of Ideas
SWAYOCO External Region | May 2026

This issue examines five interconnected questions facing the liberation movement:

→ The limits of multipolarity: why the decline of Western dominance does not automatically mean liberation for oppressed peoples

→ Organisational theory: the case for a hybrid model that combines vertical strategic coherence with lateral mass participation

→ Swaziland at a tipping point: five contradictions — legitimacy crisis, youth unemployment, mass readiness vs. organisational weakness, the 2021 generation, and the regime's systematic targeting of leadership

→ Rural women and land: how the denial of land rights to women is not a cultural accident but a political weapon — and why their emancipation is central, not secondary, to the national democratic revolution

→ The One-China crossroads: with Taiwan's President arriving in Mbabane and China extending zero tariffs to 53 African nations (excluding Swaziland), what does strategic autonomy actually require — and who gets to decide?

A movement advances not through what it proclaims, but through what it is able to sustain over time.

📖 Full issue available —https://newsletter.swayoco.com/

Forward to ideological renewal.
Forward to organisational rebuilding.
Forward to sharpened and conscious revolutionary youth.

15/05/2026

The May issue of Insika Yelusha's INPUT will confront the most urgent strategic questions facing the movement — with five major articles.

1. What Is to Be Done? Organizing for Liberation in Swaziland (Organizational Theory) by Ordrik the Scriber

A strategic intervention on the kind of organisation the movement needs: vertical, lateral, or a hybrid? And what does that mean for cadres on the ground?

2. Swaziland at a Tipping Point Contradiction, Crisis and the Possibility of Transformation (Strategic Assessment) by Cde Stacky Dlamini

The contradictions that define 2026: the legitimacy crisis of the monarchy, the economy that cannot absorb youth, the gap between mass readiness and organisational weakness, the generational rupture of 2021, and the systematic targeting of leadership.

3. *The Soil They Cannot Own: Rural Women, Land, and the Unfinished Revolution (Gender & Land Struggle by Cde Nonophile Matsenjwa

Why land dispossession is not a cultural accident but a system of control — and why rural women are central to the national democratic revolution.

4. The One-China Crossroads: Implications for Swaziland's Democracy Project (Geopolitics Strategic Analysis) by Cde Stacky Dlamini

The monarchy's Taiwan alliance, the no-tariff policy for 53 African nations, and what realignment would mean for a democratic Swaziland.

5. Only a Revolutionary, Internationalist, Class-Conscious Organisation Can Bring Liberation (Political Education) by Cde Mluleki Mvelase

Why multipolarity is not liberation, why the crisis of imperialism is not its end but its violent reorganisation, and why the movement must maintain independence from all ruling classes.

The evidence of crisis is no longer abstract. It is unfolding before us.

Coming 20 May, 2026

Forward to ideological renewal!!!
Forward to organisational rebuilding!!!
Forward to sharpened and conscious revolutionary youth!!!

14/05/2026

06/05/2026

INSIKA YELUSHA'S INPUT – SPECIAL EDITION
After the Congress: Renewal or Repetition?

The resolutions are clear. The question is ex*****on.

The PUDEMO External Region Congress sat from 17–19 April 2026. It adopted resolutions. It elected new leadership. It acknowledged, with unprecedented honesty, that the organisation is in crisis.

This admission is not weakness. It is the precondition for renewal.
But recognition alone does not transform a movement. The gap between resolution and implementation has been the graveyard of many progressive organisations.

This Special Edition of Insika Yelusha's INPUT is not a ceremonial report. It is an intervention into the question that will determine whether this Congress becomes a turning point or a footnote:

Can the movement close the gap between what it has resolved and what it will do?
IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION:
🔴 From Resolution to Reality – Why the central contradiction is not lack of ideas but lack of ex*****on. "Organisation is not declared. It is built."
🔴 Exile as a Site of Struggle – How the external terrain can be transformed from displacement into organised resistance. "Exile is not outside the struggle—it is a terrain of it."
🔴 A Movement in Crisis – Why recognition of crisis is not the end but the beginning of responsibility. "Movements do not collapse because they face difficulties. They collapse when they refuse to confront them."
🔴 New Leadership – Full list of the newly elected PUDEMO External Region leadership, including two former SWAYOCO Deputy Presidents.
🔴 Key Questions After the Congress – Six questions that will determine whether this Congress becomes a turning point or a footnote.

TUCOSWA denied a venue for May Day – court application fails on technicalities.
SNUS Secretary General Samkelo Lukhele suspended from UNISWA.
SNUS Kwaluseni Treasurer Gcinizwi Sifundza suspended from UNISWA.

But also: Former SNUS President and SWAYOCO Manzini Chairperson Cde Colani Maseko graduated – carrying a portrait of the late Cde Thulani Rudolph Maseko. The fallen heroes and heroines of our struggle are not forgotten

READ THE SPECIAL EDITION
https://newsletter.swayoco.com/

The Congress has done its work. The question now is whether the movement will do its own?

Forward to ideological renewal.
Forward to organisational rebuilding.
Forward to sharpened and conscious revolutionary youth.

01/05/2026

SWAYOCO STATEMENT ON MAY DAY 2026 AND THE TINKHUNDLA
REGIME’S CONTINUED REPRESSION

Issued on: 01 May 2026

Introduction
The Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO) unflinchingly stands in solidarity with the workers and working class of Swaziland and the entire globe as we commemorate this Worker’s Day, 1 May 2026. We recall that the recognition of the worker’s day in Swaziland is a product of the blood, sweat and sacrifice of workers of our motherland as part of the gains of the historic 27
demands.

Workers’ rights and continued tinkhundla repression

On this day, we also dip our revolutionary banner in honour of the fearless martyr, trade union activist and PUDEMO member, Cde Sipho Jele, who was detained following the May Day celebration in 2010 and brutally killed by Mswati’s regime in detention. His crime was the simple and courageous act of donning a PUDEMO T-shirt, following the enactment of the draconian Suppression of Terrorism Act (STA) of 2008 that proscribed PUDEMO, SWAYOCO, SSN and Umbane People’s Army. He dared to believe in a free Swaziland where the rights to freedom of
assembly and association are recognized and respected, rights which the royal supremacist regime tremble at their mention.

We also note and condemn the irrational and cowardly actions by the royal regime, through the Regional Administrator, of denying workers access to Hlathikhulu High School as a venue for May Day Celebration – despite the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA) having followed all due processes. We characterize this as deliberate political repression and the unlawful ban of
all gatherings that reflect on the lived experiences of our people, including workers who are subjected to inhumane degradation and exploitation by the tinkhundla regime. The incumbent Shiselweni Regional Administrator, Themba Masuku, who was then the Acting Prime Minister, is the same official who played a role in triggering the 2021 massacre of over 100 innocent citizens
when he unlawfully banned the peaceful delivery of petitions.

The blood of our people still stains the hands of those who continue to weaponize state machinery against our people. As the revolutionary writer and scholar, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, reminds us, Silence in the face of injustice is betrayal. These words echo loudly even today as we witness the continuation of the longest state of emergency since April 12, 1973, as the regime intensifies its
assault on the fundamental rights to freedom of assembly and association. These are the very rights that Comrade Thulani ‘TR’ Maseko lived and died for. The very rights that when workers of the world are gathered and celebrating May Day, Swazi workers are denied this right to meet and reflect on their
struggles and contributions to the economy that is misdirected to bankroll royal opulence.

SWAYOCO calls for the unwavering unity in purpose of the trade union movement under the banner of the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA). Fragmentation only serves the oppressor and unity of purpose is sacrosanct in advancing the struggle for better working conditions. Workers and all trade unions must join hands to rally behind and strengthen their Federation, affirming the principle of One Country, One Federation. Workers must be cognizant of the reality that the struggle of workers cannot be separated from the broader political struggle for the dismantling of royal supremacy and ushering in of a democratic dispensation in Swaziland.

Conclusion
As an organization of the marginalized youth of our country rooted in working class consciousness, we reaffirm that the fight for the democratization of Swaziland is fundamentally a struggle to restore the dignity of workers, to dismantle royal oppression, to end systematic exploitation of the working class and the dehumanization of our people. There can be no genuine workers’ freedom under a parasitic absolute monarchy that feeds on the blood of our people.

As Ken Saro-Wiwa declared before his ex*****on, the struggle is not over. May Day must be reclaimed as a day of resistance, a day of defiance to unjust laws, and a day to reaffirm the Swazi progressive forces’ collective commitment to liberation. Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

On behalf of the 13th SWAYOCO NEC;
Mthobisi Ntshangase
[email protected] / (+268) 7624 5572
Secretary General

29/04/2026

The Socialist Movement of Ghana Women's Wing expressing its solidarity with the oppressed people of Swaziland and calling for the democratization of Swaziland in support of the Swaziland Youth Congress - PYL.

26/04/2026

26/04/2026