People also called for the reduction in Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Tax, which they said, when combined with Value Added Tax (VAT) was making life difficult for many Swazis. The people also recommended that minerals mined in Swaziland should be processed in the country to increase revenue generated from these resources.

On Wednesday, the submissions focused on economic recovery and the conventions that needed ratification. The conventions under discussion were:

• UN Convention against trans-national crime, whose aim is to promote international cooperation to prevent and combat transnational organized crime, 2000
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Pornography, 2000
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of Children Armed in conflict, 2000
• UN Convention against corruption, 2003
• Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000
• Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air supplemeting the UN Convention Against Organized Crime
• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982
• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Harzardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade,1998
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2007
• Optional Protocol on the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• SADC Protocol on Finance and Investment, 1996
• SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, 2008
• African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990
• The African Youth Charter, 2008
• Convention of the African Commission, 1980
• Convetion on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption,
• The KYOTO Protocol on Amendment to the International Convention and Simplification and Harmonisation of Customs and Procedures, 1999
• International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 2001
• Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially Waterfowl Habitat, 1971
• Agreement on the Conservation of African Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, 1979
• Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, 1970
• Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, 2005
• Convention of Safeguards of Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2003
• Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

Throngs of Swazis from the country’s four regions also converged at Ludzidzini Royal Residence to take part in a similar exercise which proved crucial during the drafting stages of the National Constitution which was completed in 2005.