POLICE FORCED TO PAY FOR 50/50 JUBILEE
Police officers and support staff in Swaziland are being told they must contribute cash towards the cost of the 50/50 celebration to mark the autocratic King Mswati III’s 50th birthday and the...
View ArticleU.S. AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES PARTIES
Democracy advocates in Swaziland should put forward policies that would attract people to support political parties, the US Ambassador to the kingdom said.Explaining why political parties were needed...
View ArticleGOVT MINISTRIES BROKE LAW ON SPENDING
The offices of the Prime Minister, National Commissioner of Police, Defence Department and Correctional Services in Swaziland are among a string of government departments and agencies that have broken...
View ArticleMPs BLOCK SWAZI STATE-RADIO FUNDS
Members of parliament have blocked funding to state-controlled radio in Swaziland because they say they are not being allowed on air.One said the stations under the Swaziland Broadcasting and...
View Article50/50 CELEBRATION BUSTS BUDGET
The Swaziland Government has bought a fleet of luxury BMW cars worth US$7.5 million ahead of the King’s 50/50 celebrations.The cost of the cars alone bust the US$1.7 million budget the government...
View ArticlePOLICE FIRE DURING STUDENT ROADBLOCK
Armed police in Swaziland fired rubber bullets and arrested eight students when they put a rubbish skip in the middle of a road during a protest.It happened at Limkokwing University, Mbabane. Students...
View ArticleMPs UNHAPPY WITH PM’s NEW HOUSE
Barnabas Dlamini, Swaziland’s unelected Prime Minister, is under fire from members of parliament over a plan to build him a retirement house costing E5.5 million from public funds.They said the house...
View ArticlePOLICE BLOCK BUDGET PROTEST MARCH
Police armed with batons blocked a road in Swaziland to stop a petition rejecting the national budget being delivered to parliament.Police with guns watched from a distance.It happened in Lobamba on...
View ArticleSWAZILAND MPs BLOCK STATE-TV BUDGET
Members of Swaziland’s parliament refused to approve the budget of state-controlled Swazi TV following years of upheavals at the station.They want an inquiry report from 2016 fully implemented before...
View ArticleFOREIGN BANKS ‘MIGHT QUIT SWAZILAND’
Foreign-owned banks in Swaziland might leave the kingdom if a proposed new levy announced by the Minister of Finance Martin Dlamini goes ahead.Banks will be expected to pay 2.5 percent of their annual...
View ArticleYOUTH ELECTION WORKSHOP BANNED
A workshop in Swaziland on the forthcoming election was banned because it was deemed illegal.More than 30 young people and community leaders from across the kingdom were turned away from the Castle...
View ArticleKING CONTROLS SWAZILAND PARLIAMENT
King Mswati III, Swaziland’s absolute monarch, will pronounce on whether E250 million will be spent on designs for a new parliament building that will itself cost E2.3 billion (US$192 million).The...
View ArticleFRAUD AT SWAZI DEPUTY PM’s OFFICE
The Deputy Prime Minister’s Office in Swaziland is in a financial mess; money is given to those who do not deserve it and withheld from those who do, overtime payments have been made fraudulently and...
View ArticleNEW DRIVE FOR SWAZI WOMEN’S RIGHTS
The European Union in Swaziland is funding a multi-million emalangeni three-year project to advocate for and support women’s rights in the kingdom where many are legally treated as children.It is...
View ArticlePOLICE MUST NOT BEAT SUSPECTS: COURT
A Principal Magistrate in Swaziland told police they must not assault prisoners in custody.David Khumalo made his comments at Manzini on Monday (19 March 2018) after a suspect appeared in court with...
View ArticleMPs SAY ANTI-CORRUPTION BODY ‘CORRUPT’
Members of Parliament in Swaziland have suspended the budget of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) because they say the organisation is itself corrupt.They want a select committee to investigate...
View ArticleTOWN TIDIES UP FOR KING’S BIRTHDAY
People in Swaziland have been asked not to urinate in public during King Mswati III’s birthday celebrations.It is one of the things Manzini Municipal Council wants as it tries to mask the poor state of...
View ArticleNO SEX PLEASE YOU’RE SOLDIERS
Army recruits in Swaziland have been barred from having sex, because their commander thinks it will make them weak.Commander Sobantu Dlamini of the Umbutfo Swaziland Defence Force (as the Swazi army is...
View ArticleDESTITUTE POOR RISK DEATH BY POISONING
Destitute people in Swaziland are putting their lives at risk from food poisoning by eating contaminated processed meats.Certain brands of processed meats have been banned in Swaziland following a...
View ArticleSOLDIERS FORCED TO PAY FOR KING’S PARTY
Army personnel in Swaziland have been forced to make a contribution from their salaries towards the cost King Mswati III’s 50th birthday celebration.Previously, police officers in the kingdom were also...
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