SWAZILAND DROUGHT – TRUTH REVEALED
The drought in Swaziland that its absolute monarch King Mswati III declared was over has devastated the kingdom, a United Nations reportrevealed.About 300,000 people, one in four of King Mswati’s...
View ArticleMONEY FOR KING'S JET, BUT NOT DROUGHT
Only weeks after it was announced Swaziland would seek E143 million (US$9 million) from the international community because it could not pay for drought relief, the Swazi Finance Minister announced the...
View ArticleVICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES
Kenworthy News Media, 4 March 2016 SOURCE“I am a victim of circumstances”, says activist Mphandlana ‘Victim’ Shongwe of the nickname he is known by because of the decades of state harassment he has...
View ArticleSWAZI SECURITY BUDGET SOARS
Swaziland is to spend US$150 million on security in the coming year, the kingdom’s annual budget reveals.It amounts to 11 percent of the tiny kingdom’s total budget.The money will be spent on the army...
View ArticleACTIVIST ARRESTS AFTER ALLEGED ARSON
Four supporters of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) have been arrested and charged following an alleged arson attack on rondavels in a-Ngcamphalala Chiefdom in Siphofaneni under the leadership of...
View Article$12m SPEND ON ROYAL DECOR AT AIRPORT
As the Swaziland Government goes cap-in-hand to the international community to seek money to stop people starving as a result of drought, news has emerged that US$12 million is to be spent on...
View ArticlePOOR STAY POOR AS KING GETS MORE
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch in Swaziland, is to get a 9 percent increase for his spending from the taxpayer, while elderly pensions are frozen because there is not enough money to pay for...
View Article4,556 CASES OF SEVERE SCHOOL BEATINGS
There have been 4,556 cases of ‘severe corporal punishment’ of children in Swaziland’s schools over the past four years, an international news organisation reported.Star Africa quoted Zanele Thabede...
View ArticleDROUGHT AID REACHES SWAZILAND
International aid is beginning to flow into Swaziland as drought relief, despite controversies over inappropriate spending by the Swazi Government.In the February 2016 budget it was revealed that at...
View ArticleMPs BLOCK SWAZI KING’S NEW JET
Members of the Swaziland Parliament have blocked a move to pay E96 million (about US$6.4 million at the present ever-fluctuating exchange rate) for a jet plane for the kingdom’s autocratic monarch King...
View ArticleLATEST ON SWAZI FREEDOM STRUGGLE
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland, has once again been at the centre of events in his kingdom. His refusal to recognise there was a drought crisis and hundreds of thousands of his...
View ArticleSWAZI MPs ABOUT-TURN ON KING’S JET
Swaziland parliamentarians have made an abrupt about-turn over the purchase of a private jet for the kingdom’s autocratic monarch, King Mswati III.They had decided to reject part of the kingdom’s...
View ArticlePOLICE ATTACK VICTIM WILL NOT WALK
The Swazi university student who was crushed under an armoured troop carrier when police drove at speed at protesting students was so badly injured she will not walk again.Ayanda Mkhabela, aged 23, was...
View ArticleKING BUYS JET, UN FUNDS DROUGHT RELIEF
Just as the Swaziland Government announced it would spend E200 million (US$13.2 million) of public funds on a private jet aircraft for King Mswati III, the United Nations has released US$3.14 million...
View ArticleKING ‘STEALS FROM CHILDREN’ TO BUY JET
The best-known of the prodemocracy groups in Swaziland has accused King Mswati III of stealing from children so he could have his own personal jet aircraft. The People’s United Democratic Movement...
View ArticleSTUDENT CAMPAIGN AFTER POLICE ATTACK
Students in Swaziland have launched a campaign in support of Ayanda Mkhabela, who was crippled when police drove at her in an armoured vehicle during a university protest.Doctors have said Mkhabela,...
View ArticleINCREASE IN SUPPORT FOR FREE PRESS
Nearly six in ten people surveyed in Swaziland said they supported the need for freedom of the media.The number supporting freedom had increased by 6 percent since 2013.The figures were contained in a...
View ArticleONE IN THREE USE INTERNET FOR NEWS
Nearly one in three people surveyed in Swaziland said they got their news from the Internet at least ‘a few times a week’.One in three also said they used social media for news during the same...
View ArticleSWAZI MONARCHY ‘A PARASITE’
Monarchy a luxury that Swaziland cannot affordKenworthy News Media, 9 May 2016 SOURCESwaziland’s big-spending absolute monarch King Mswati III is spending millions of dollars on a new personal jet and...
View ArticleKING DONATES TO SWAZI DROUGHT RELIEF
King Mswati III the absolute monarch in Swaziland has ‘donated’ US$150,000 to help victims of drought in his kingdom. It came weeks after it was revealed the government he handpicked will spend US$13...
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