POLICE ‘BEAT UP TWO SUSPECTS IN CELL’
Two men Maswazi Simelane and Fani Simelane accused police in Swaziland of beating them up badly in the cells.Fani Simelane told the Mbabane Magistrate he was heavily assaulted all over his body so...
View ArticlePOLICE SHOOT WOMAN STRIKER IN HEAD
Police in Swaziland shot a woman in the head with a rubber bullet as they fired on workers protesting for a pay rise.They also fired teargas.It happened at a Poly Pack factory at Ngwenya where workers...
View ArticleSWAZILAND’S BLACK WEDNESDAY RECALLED
The fourteenth of November marks the anniversary of the time Swaziland soldiers invaded the University of Swaziland and according to independent witnesses beat students with sickening brutality.It...
View ArticleHEAD TEACHER CHARGED IN BEATING CASE
A male head teacher of a school in Swaziland has been arrested and charged for allegedly beating an 18-year-old female pupil on the buttocks with a black pipe.The Times of Swaziland reported on Tuesday...
View ArticleGAME RANGERS SHOOT-TO-KILL AGAIN
Game rangers in Swaziland shot dead a man hunting food for his family and wounded another in the latest example of the kingdom’s ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy against poachers.The Swazi Observer newspaper...
View ArticleFORCED CHILD LABOUR RIFE IN SWAZILAND
A new report that more than 11,000 children in Swaziland are forced to stay away from school to tend cattle is only the tip of an iceberg in child exploitation in the kingdom.A draft Report on Child...
View ArticleSWAZILAND FAILS HUMAN RIGHTS TEST
Swaziland came 50thout of 54 African countries for participation and human rights in a survey just published. It has got worse over the past five years.The Mo Ibrahim Foundation reported its Index of...
View ArticleKING ‘EXPLOITS FORCED CHILD WORKERS’
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch in Swaziland, has been named in an global report on human trafficking for forcing children to work in his fields.One organisation has called this modern day...
View ArticlePUBLIC SERVANTS PAY STRIKE ‘ON WAY’
Swaziland’s only independent newspaper group is predicting a national strike of public servants after the kingdom’s Industrial Court dismissed an application for a pay increase.Unions involved include...
View ArticleGOVT FAILS TO PAY ELDERLY GRANTS
The elderly in Swaziland have not been paid pensions because the government does not have the money.This was revealed when about 4,000 people became eligible for the pensions (known as elderly grants)...
View ArticleCHIEF PUNISHES RESIDENTS WITH FINE
Residents in Swaziland have been fined for not attending community meetings and paying ‘homage’ to their chief.About 20 families have been affected in in the Southern Hhohho region, according to a...
View ArticleEU ‘UNDERMINES FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY’
EU sugar-coats absolute monarchy’s bitter pillKenworthy News Media, 27 November 2017 SOURCEEuropean Union-support for Swaziland’s monarchy-controlled sugar industry undermines the fight for democracy,...
View ArticleRISE IN GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
More than 10,500 cases of gender-based violence were recorded in Swaziland in 2016, according to figures just published.Most cases were said to have been committed by relatives or intimidate partners,...
View ArticleSWAZI GOVT RUNNING OUT OF MONEY
Swaziland’s public spending is so out of control the kingdom has to rely on income from a customs union to pay public service salaries, but it is not enough, Finance Minister Martin Dlamini told...
View ArticleSWAZI POLICE RAIDS AND ROAD BLOCKS
Police in Swaziland intend to set up security road blocks across the kingdom over the forthcoming holiday season.Lubombo Police Commissioner Musa Zwane said there had already been be raids on homes and...
View Article8 IN 10 SWAZI ELDERLY ARE IN POVERTY
More than 80 percent of women aged 60 and over and 70 percent of men in Swaziland live in poverty, according to a new report.This comes at a time when the Swazi Government has run out of money and...
View ArticleLGBTI SWAZIS FACE DAILY ABUSE
LGBTI people in Swaziland are subjected to abuse in their daily lives and from police and medical workers, a meeting on human rights in the kingdom was told.Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and...
View Article‘ARMY SEXUAL ASSAULTS AT BORDER POSTS’
Soldiers in Swaziland have once again been accused of sexually assaulting women at the kingdom’s border posts.The latest accusation also says they are charging people to cross at informal border...
View ArticleCORRUPTION IN SWAZI GOVERNMENT ‘RIFE’
Public perception in Swaziland is that corruption within Government is ‘rife’, according to a new survey just published.About 79 percent of 3,090 people interviewed said this in a survey conducted by...
View ArticlePRESSURISE SWAZILAND TO CHANGE
Why Bother with a Country Like Swaziland?ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa) Swaziland is a small country but that does not make it unimportant. The international community should apply serious pressure...
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