By Bongiwe Dlamini

MBABANE:Neal Rijikernberg, the Minister of Finance has announced that there would be no “Christmas early payment of salaries for civil servants”.

This comes after the Eswatini Government increased salaries for civil servants and politicians, the salary review increased the wage bill.

But the Finance Minister informed civil servants that, Government will pay salaries early in January 2026 to enable them to pay school fees, he was addressing the media on Thursday.