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POLICE STOP PROTESTORS AT BORDER
PUDEMO President Mario Masuku stopped by police at the Swaziland border. Picture: PUDEMO Facebook page)Leaders of Swaziland’s political opposition were stopped from crossing the border into South...
View ArticleVOTERS MISLED ON SWAZILAND ELECTION
With voter registration underway Swaziland is once more saying people will vote for a government when they will not.King Mswati III rules Swaziland as sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch....
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT ON SWAZI INTERNATIONAL AID
More information than ever before about the lavish spending of King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of impoverished Swaziland, has been made public (outside the kingdom) in recent weeks, raising...
View ArticleREGISTRATION OPENS FOR SWAZI ELECTION
Swaziland’s Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) says it is fully prepared for the forthcoming national election. Registration is open and runs to 17 June 2018. EBC Chair Chief Gija Dlamini has...
View ArticleEU MONEY PAYS FOR LAVISH SWAZI KING
European Union taxpayers’ money is being used to finance the lavish lifestyle of Swaziland’s Royal Family, an investigation has revealed.This happens while seven in ten of the 1.1 million population...
View ArticleCOURT FINES WOMAN, 78, FOR ‘DISRESPECT’
A 78-year-old woman in Swaziland was sentenced to nine months in prison with an option of a fine for ‘disrespecting’ local leaders.She had refused to attend a meeting called by the traditional...
View ArticlePATIENTS AT RISK AS GOVT BILLS UNPAID
Hospitals across Swaziland have been left without security guards exposing them to criminal activity because the government has not paid its bills.Ministry of Health Principal Secretary Simon Zwane...
View ArticlePOOR START TO VOTER REGISTRATION
With the election registration in Swaziland only days old there is a report of corruption and another of nepotism. Voting equipment is not available across the kingdom.The Times of Swaziland reported...
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ABSOLUTE KING DEMONSTRATES HIS POWER
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch in Swaziland, has signed what amounts to a decree to formalise his unilateral decision to change the kingdom’s name to Eswatini.It demonstrates how much the...
View ArticlePOLICE PROBE ELECTION ‘CORRUPTION’
Police in Swaziland are investigating possible election corruption as voter registration enters its second week.A former government minister has been accused of bribing people with promises of food...
View ArticleSEX OFFENCES BILL STILL NOT PASSED
Swaziland’s controversial Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence (SODV) Bill may not become law unless it is passed before the forthcoming election.The Bill has been around in some form since 2009.An...
View Article‘DAD RAPES DAUGHTER TO TEST VIRGINITY’
A father in Swaziland raped his 16-year-old daughter to test that she was still a virgin, a court has been told.It is a stark illustration of the way women and girls are treated in the kingdom where...
View ArticleUNHAPPY RESIDENTS BOYCOTT ELECTION
People across Swaziland are boycotting registration for the forthcoming election in disputes over constituency boundaries.It follows a reorganisation that increased the number of constituencies, known...
View ArticleGOVT ISSUES MISLEADING JOBLESS FIGURES
The Swaziland Government is misleading people about the rate of unemployment in the impoverished kingdom.Media reported on Tuesday (22 May 2018) an announcement from Minister of Labour and Social...
View ArticleREPORTS OF SWAZILAND ELECTION ABUSE
Reports of malpractice in Swaziland’s election registration are many. Soldiers have been accused of physically intimidating voters, football teams have rejected dubious sponsorship from an aspiring...
View Article‘URGENT NEED TO PASS SEX OFFENCES BILL’
Swaziland must urgently enact the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Bill, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said in a reportreleased on Thursday (24 May 2018).The Bill which has been...
View ArticleELECTION OF WOMEN BILL STALLS
Evidence is growing in Swaziland that traditionalists do not support a constitutional change to ensure 30 percent of members of the House of Assembly are women.It has taken 10 years for a Bill to reach...
View ArticleJOURNALISTS SAY THEY ARE UNDER THREAT
Seven in ten journalists interviewed by UNESCO in Swaziland said they had faced attempts from politicians or advertisers to interfere with what they were writing. Meanwhile, there is evidence that...
View ArticleCONFUSION OVER SWAZI VOTER NUMBERS
CommentaryAs registration for the forthcoming election in Swaziland entered its second week, more than 100,000 had reportedly signed up.Martin Dlamini, the Managing Editor of the Times of Swaziland,...
View ArticleCENSORSHIP TOTAL AT SWAZI STATE MEDIA
The extent to which state media in Swaziland is censored to control people’s understanding of what is going on in the kingdom, has been revealed by UNESCO.The news agenda is manipulated in favour of...
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