SWAZILAND REPRESSES POLITICAL DISSENT
Swaziland continues to repress political dissent and disregard human rights and the rule of law, the latest international report on freedom in the kingdom reveals.Human Rights Watch in its review of...
View ArticleMAN IN JAIL 10 YEARS AWAITING TRIAL
A man in Swaziland has been held in jail for nearly ten years as he awaits trail.Sikhumbuzo Mdluli, of Ngwazini in the Manzini region was arrested and charged with murder in March 2008 and is still in...
View ArticleSCHOOL UNDER FIRE ON PREGNANCY TEST
A school in Swaziland is being criticised by an action group against abuse for a decision to make girl pupils take pregnancy tests.Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA) Communications and...
View ArticleTEXTILE WORKERS WANT MINIMUM WAGE
Textile workers in Swaziland are campaigning for a basic minimum wage and for many of them that would mean doubling their income.Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA) members want a wage of at...
View ArticleKINGDOM’S UNLIKELY GOVERNANCE AWARD
Swaziland has been given an award for ‘its contribution to peace, development and good governance’ by a group with links to the cultish Unification Church despite being ranked 34 out of 54 countries in...
View ArticleGOVT BREAKS OWN LAW ON SPENDING
The Swazi Government ignores the law when spending nearly E10billion (US$840million) of public money buying goods and services, according to the Swaziland Public Procurement Regulatory Agency...
View ArticleKINGDOM GETS 3/100 ON BUDGET OPENNESS
Swaziland scored a mere three points out of 100 in a global review of its budget transparency.The kingdom ruled by King Mswati III as sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch received zero points in...
View ArticleGAMEDZE ‘BOUGHT NEWSPAPER EDITORS’
Newspaper editors in Swaziland were on the payroll of murdered businessman Victor Gamedze, Zweli Martin Dlamini the exiled editor of Swaziland Shopping has said.Dlamini fled to South Africa after a...
View ArticleHEALTH CRISIS: BLOOD SUPPLIES DRY UP
Swaziland’s blood shortage crisis is continuing. It is one of a number of crises afflicting health in the kingdom.The Swazi Observer reported on Tuesday (30 January 2018) that blood stocks fell during...
View ArticleABUSED POWER OF SWAZI CHIEFS
A chief in Swaziland is forcing his subjects to pay for him to have a new car. Chief Mlotjwa II of KaLiba in the outskirts of Hlatikulu town in the Shiselweni region has demanded E100 (US$8)...
View ArticleCHILDREN TOLD ‘PREPARE FOR STARVATION’
Children in Swaziland should prepare themselves for starvation as the government once again fails to deliver free food to schools, a school principal has warned.At the start of the new year a...
View ArticleTOO LONG WAIT SEEKING SWAZI JUSTICE
‘Most visits are trouble-free’Kenworthy News Media, 2 February 2018 SOURCETrying to complain and demand an investigation into having been beaten up and threatened by security police in Swaziland via...
View ArticlePOLICE KEEP MUM AND BABY IN JAIL
A woman and her baby were held in a police cell overnight in Swaziland along with at least 10 other students who are saying they were beaten up by police.The students from Swaziland Christian...
View ArticleSWAZI DOCTORS SUSPEND STRIKE
Doctors, nurses and other health workers in Swaziland have suspended strike action after winning a court order against the government.They are protesting a new circular that slashed their stand-by and...
View ArticlePOLICE ‘FIRED LIVE BULLETS AT PROTEST’
Police in Swaziland have not denied a newspaper report that they fired live ammunition during a student protest.Students from Swaziland Christian University were protesting about delays in receiving...
View ArticleTRUE LIFE OF SWAZI PRIME MINISTER
Swaziland’s unelected Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini has published the first volume of his autobiography. It runs for 500 pages and more books are promised. Unsurprisingly newspapers such as the Swazi...
View ArticleSWAZILAND SCHOOLS IN CHAOS
Schools across Swaziland are in chaos at the start of the new academic year. Children have been turned away because there are no spaces for them in classes at High School. This is because the kingdom...
View Article50/50: LEARN LESSON OF PAST DISASTER
People in Swaziland are being prepared for the double celebration of King Mswati’s 50th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the kingdom’s independence from Great Britain.This is being marketed as the...
View ArticleMORE CRIME FEARS IN SWAZILAND
Residents in Swaziland are being attacked in their own homes, a local newspaper reported.The Swazi Observer said on Wednesday (7 February 2018) that criminals were ‘brazenly attacking residents in...
View ArticleSWAZI HEALTH WORKERS BACK IN COURT
Doctors, nurses and health workers in Swaziland have forced the government to reconsider a decision to cut their on-call allowances. They had threatened a boycott.The Swaziland Nurses Association had...
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