SWAZI GOVT FORCES NEWSPAPER TO CLOSE
Government in Swaziland has closed down a newspaper after it fell foul of one of more than 30 laws in the kingdom restricting the media.Swaziland Shopping, a newspaper aimed at businesses, was told to...
View ArticleU.S. RESTORES SWAZI TRADE BENEFITS
The United States has restored trade benefitsfor Swaziland that were withdrawn because of human rights violations.Swaziland, which is ruled by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute...
View ArticleSWAZI JAIL RIOT OVER NO BREAD
Prison inmates in Swaziland reportedly rioted because of food shortages. They were given sour porridge because there was no bread.Untrained correctional officer recruits were sent to deal with the...
View ArticlePOLICE ‘BRUTALLY ATTACK’ DRINKING DEN
Police in Swaziland attacked people at an illegal drinking den with guns and whips in what a local newspaper called, ‘the truest form of brutality’.It happened in the Ezulwini area. The Observer on...
View ArticleJAIL INMATES ‘BEATEN FREQUENTLY’
A suspect told a magistrate in Swaziland that inmates at the Sidwashini correctional facility were ‘frequently assaulted’, a newspaper in the kingdom reported.The Swazi Observer reported (28 December...
View ArticleSWAZI HOSPITALS ‘RUN OUT OF VACCINES’
Health facilities in Swaziland have reportedly run out of vaccines against polio and tuberculosis in the latest in a long-running shortage of medicines in the kingdom, due to non-payment of bills by...
View Article133 JAILED WITHOUT TRIAL FOR A YEAR
At least 133 people have been detained in Swaziland jails without trial for more than a year, the kingdom’s human rights commission reported.That is the number of people who have reported their...
View ArticlePOLICEMAN ‘SOLD FAKE DRIVER LICENCES’
A police officer in Swaziland sold fake driving licences, a court in the kingdom was told.A traffic cop in Manzini, Swaziland’s main commercial city, took E2,500 (US$200) for a fake document.Hloniphile...
View ArticleJOURNALISTS ‘SCARED TO DO THEIR JOBS’
Journalists in Swaziland cannot do their jobs properly because they fear people in authority, a leading media academic in the kingdom said.Dr Maxwell Mthembu from the University of Swaziland said...
View Article‘EDITOR FLEES AFTER DEATH THREAT’
Swazi King’s henchmen threaten to kill editorKenworthy News Media, 6 January 2018SOURCESwazi editor Zweli Martin Dlamini has fled to neighbouring South Africa after he received death threats. He had...
View ArticleNAKED PREGNANT SOLDIERS LOCKED UP
Three pregnant soldiers in Swaziland were locked up naked in a guardroom without water, food or access to the toilet in the latest example of bullying by the Army.The ordeal which lasted 12 hours was a...
View ArticleSCHOOLS CRISIS OVER CHRISTIAN TEACHING
Swaziland’s schools are in crisis because of lack of funds and teachers, the kingdom’s Minister of Education and Training Phineas Magagula said.About E33 million (US2.6 million) is needed to fund 169...
View ArticleJAIL DISTURBANCES ACROSS SWAZILAND
There are reports of disturbances in jails in Swaziland and inmates are accused of brutality against warders.It is claimed that new inmates have formed gangs and warders from jails across the kingdom...
View ArticleCOURT ‘ATTACKS JOURNALIST ETHICS’
Media freedom advocates in Swaziland have criticised the kingdom’s top law officer for demanding a photojournalist give evidence for the police in a court case.The Media Institute of Southern Africa...
View ArticlePOLICE SHOOT MAN, HE ‘COMMITS SUICIDE’
Police in Swaziland say a murder suspect committed suicide by taking poison after they shot him in the ankle while chasing him.It happened in Makhungutja after local residents claimed that police had...
View ArticleSWAZILAND NEAR LAST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Swaziland’s economy is in free fall and the infrastructure of the kingdom ruled by King Mswati III as sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch is crumbling. Government bills go unpaid and the health...
View ArticleKING’S ‘BUSINESS PARTNER’ ASSASSINATED
A controversial businessman with links to Swaziland’s autocratic King Mswati III was assassinated at a petrol station in the kingdom.Victor Gamedze was shot twice in the head at the Galp filling...
View ArticleANOTHER FATAL SHOOTING BY RANGERS
Game rangers in Swaziland reportedly shot dead a man who was handcuffed in another case that underlines the zero-tolerance, shoot-to-kill policy against poachers in the kingdom.The Sunday...
View ArticleSWAZILAND CIVIL LIBERTIES WORSEN
Civil liberties in Swaziland have deteriorated in the past year, a leading global freedom group has reported.Freedom House reported,‘Swaziland’s civil liberties rating declined from five to six due to...
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