SWAZILAND THE MOST UNEQUAL COUNTRY
Swaziland is world’s most unequal countryKenworthy News Media, 4 May 2017 SOURCE According to a new briefing paper, published by British charitable organization, Oxfam, Swaziland is the world’s most...
View ArticleSWAZI GOVT FAILS ON POVERTY: OXFAM
Swaziland has just been named as the most unequal country in the world, in a report from the globally-renowned charity Oxfam.The analysis was published to coincide with the World Economic Forum (WEF)...
View ArticlePROBE INTO SWAZI CHILD EXPLOITATION
Swaziland is being put under the spotlight by a United Nations group following fears that child sexual abuse and forced labour is rife in the kingdom.The Swazi Government has failed to account for its...
View ArticleSOLDIERS SEX FOR FOOD WITH GIRLS, 14
Poverty-stricken parents of girls as young as fourteen in Swaziland are giving them to soldiers for sex in exchange for food, a newspaper reported.The Observer of Saturday newspaper in Swaziland...
View ArticleSWAZI GOVERNMENT FUEL SCANDAL
A government vehicle in Swaziland used 608 litres of diesel in one day and another 743 litres the day after.This was one of the scandals unearthed in a report to the Swazi parliament. The Isuzu Double...
View ArticleJUVENILE CENTRE ‘HELL ON EARTH’
A former pupil convict at Vulamasango, a school for juvenile offenders in Swaziland, has described it as being like ‘hell on earth’.The Observer on Saturday newspaper (6 May 2017) in Swaziland...
View ArticleSTUDENTS WANT SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ALL
Students in Swaziland have launched a campaign for scholarships for all. They want the Swazi Government to reverse a decision taken seven years ago to prioritise courses and cut scholarships by 60...
View ArticlePOLICE PATROL SWAZI VARSITY CAMPUS
Police have been stationed at a university campus in Swaziland ahead of the end-of-year examination in what has been called an act of intimidation.This is not the first time police have been onto...
View ArticleNEWSPAPER CALLS KING ‘OPPRESSOR’
A newspaper in Botswana has criticised Swaziland’s King Mswati III calling him an ‘oppressor’ of the Swazi people.Mmegi, in an editorial comment, on Thursday (11 May 2017) called on the Southern...
View ArticleSWAZI PM DLAMINI’S DUBIOUS RECORD
Swaziland’s Prime Minster Barnabas Dlamini turned 75 on Monday (15 May 2017) and the Swazi Observernewspaper published a front page tribute and four pages inside to the man who was never elected to...
View ArticleSWAZI GOVT ‘KILLING ITS OWN PEOPLE’
The kingdom’s only independent newspaper has accused the Swaziland Government of ‘killing its people’ with a shortage of medicines in hospitals.The Government, handpicked by King Mswati III who rules...
View ArticleRANGERS SHOOT DEAD ANOTHER MAN
Game rangers in Swaziland shot dead a ‘mentally challenged’ man they suspected of poaching in what the newspaper in effect owned by King Mswati III called ‘cold blooded murder.’It comes at a time when...
View ArticleINNOCENT KIDS LOCKED IN JUVIE JAIL
Parents in Swaziland are paying up to E10,000 a year to have their children locked up in juvenile jail even though they have committed no offence.They are incarcerated at Vulamasango School, ‘with the...
View ArticleMORE WORKERS JOIN SUGARCANE UNION
More workers in Swaziland’s sugarcane industry are joining a trade union, following international condemnation of their working conditions.The Swaziland Agricultural and Plantations Workers Union...
View ArticlePROBE INTO ‘INHUMANE’ JAIL CONDITIONS
A United Nations group is investigating prison conditions in Swaziland amid reports of inhumane conditions.They include food shortages, inadequate sanitary conditions and medical care.Swaziland...
View ArticleSWAZI DRUG SHORTAGE CRISIS DEEPENS
Parliamentarians in Swaziland have given the government seven days to sort out the drugs shortage crisis crippling public health facilities in the kingdom.E236 million (US$18 million) is reportedly...
View ArticleFIREFIGHTERS ‘ORDERED TO CHUCH’
Firefighters in Swaziland are angry that they are being forced by their bosses to attend Christian church services.A memo has been issued to stations across the kingdom advising that staff should...
View Article‘NO CHANCE OF SWAZI POLICE UNION’
A suggestion from schoolteachers in Swaziland that the kingdom’s police should form a trade union will almost certainly be dead in the water.There is a bitter history in the kingdom ruled by King...
View ArticleMBABANE CRIME THREAT CRITICAL: REPORT
The United States has assessed Swaziland’s capital city Mbabane as a ‘critical-threat location’ for crime in a report just published.Street robberies are prevalent and they happen at all times of the...
View ArticleSWAZI POLICE ‘TORTURE’ INQUIRY
A United Nations group is investigating the use of torture by police in Swaziland.It comes as another suspect alleges he was tortured while in custody and had to have hospital treatment.Swaziland...
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