END OF SWAZILAND’S NATIONAL AIRLINE
A grand plan by Swaziland to create a national airline has crashed after it became clear the tiny kingdom could not afford a single aircraft.Even so, E20 million had been spent on leasing a 29-year-old...
View ArticleSWAZI COURT ORDERS WIFE TO HAVE SEX
A woman has been ordered by a magistrate in Swaziland to have sex with her husband within seven days or face divorce.Her husband had gone to court to seek a divorce on the grounds his wife was no...
View ArticlePOLICE TURN WATER CANNON ON STUDENTS
Police in Swaziland reportedly used water cannon from a Casspir armoured vehicle and batons to disperse students protesting about examination fees.It happened at Gwamile Vocational and Commercial...
View ArticleSHAME OF AUTISTIC SWAZI CHILDREN
Children with autism in Swaziland are often locked and hidden away at home because their parents think they are a bad omen.People with autism are considered ‘mentally retarded,’ which means they do not...
View ArticleKINGDOM LAST FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM
Swaziland came a long way last in a survey of 36 African countries looking at political freedom. Of those asked, ‘In this country how free are you to join any political organisation you want?’ only 7...
View ArticleWIDOWS CAN STAND IN SWAZI ELECTION
Widows in Swaziland are allowed to stand in the 2018 nation elections but if they are elected they must stay away from King Mswati III.In the past, widows have been discriminated against at election...
View ArticleWARDERS DECRY MARRIED SEX IN PRISONS
Prison officers in Swaziland are against allowing prisoners to enjoy ‘conjugal rights’ with their married partners.One staff association leader said it could end with them killing one another prisoner...
View Article‘UNETHICAL HIV TESTS ON CHILDREN’
The Swaziland Ministry of Health is to investigate a report that a Manzini-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) is allegedly testing children under the age of 12 for HIV without parental consent...
View ArticleSWAZI KING’S BUDGET INCREASES $14-mil
The Swaziland Royal Household is to increase by E200 million (US$14 million) in the coming year to take it to E1.3 billion, an independent monthly magazine in the kingdom has reported.The...
View Article‘PRAY FOR FIRST-WORLD STATUS’: KING
King Mswati III, the autocratic ruler of Swaziland, told his subjects that the impoverished kingdom would achieve ‘First World’ status by 2022 if they prayed hard enough. He told congregants gathered...
View ArticleSWAZI CIRCUMCISION DRIVE FAILING
As the discredited campaign to circumcise men in Swaziland to prevent HIV infection continues to fail, two government ministries are now targeting schoolboys.A Back to School 2017 campaign has been...
View ArticleSWAZI KING’S ‘GOD DELUSION’
King Mswati III, who rules as an absolute monarch over the destitute kingdom of Swaziland, appears to have a God delusion.The King and his family say they have a direct-line to God. In 2013, King...
View ArticleCONFUSION OVER COST OF KING’S JET
Swaziland lawmakers have been told that the King’s jetwill cost the impoverished kingdom US$12.6 million. In the national budget in February 2016, E96 million (about US$7.3 million) had been set aside...
View ArticleCOST OF FLYING SWAZI KING’S JET
As confusion reigns over the true cost on King Mswati III second private jet, confidential figures suggest his present plane may have cost Swaziland at least US$15 million to operate since he received...
View ArticleUN PROBES SWAZILAND ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Swaziland signed a major international agreement on human rights in the kingdom 13 years ago, but since has not reported on progress. Swaziland ratified the United Nations International Covenant on...
View ArticleKING FEASTS WHILE PEOPLE STARVE
Just as the World Food Program revealed that one-in-three people in Swaziland ‘are in need of emergency food assistance’, media in the kingdom reported that King Mswati III’s birthday cake took three...
View ArticleKINGDOM FACES LGBTI RIGHTS REVIEW
Swaziland’s discrimination against LGBTI people is being put under scrutiny by a United Nations group.Swaziland, which is ruled by King Mswati III, as sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, signed...
View ArticleCORRUPTION IN ARMY RECRUITING
Corruption in army recruitment in Swaziland has been exposed with at least 40 recruits expelled during basic training.Among allegations circulating in newspapers in the kingdom is that top army...
View ArticleSWAZI MPs IGNORANT ON PROTOCOLS
Members of parliament and senators in Swaziland have admitted publicly that they do not understand much of the work they do and have signed at least 20 international conventions without scrutinising...
View ArticleINVESTIGATE ‘POLICE BRUTALITY’: COURT
A senior magistrate in Swaziland has called for an investigation into alleged brutality at one of the kingdom’s police stations.Sindisile Zwane said she has noted that there have been a lot of...
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