The SFTU was involved in the campaign to win democratic and pluralist reforms in Swaziland, as well as the removal of restrictive labour legislation.

In 1995, general secretary at the time, Jan Sithole was threatened with deportation, and later kidnapped and abandoned in the boot of a car.

In 2002, he was publicly threatened by a Swazi senator and government delegate to the International Labour Organization.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) was an outspoken and active supporter of the SFTU.

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