COURT BID TO ALLOW PARTIES AT ELECTION
The Swaziland Democratic Party (SWADEPA) is going to the High Court to try to force absolute monarch King Mswati III to allow political parties to contest the forthcoming election.Parties have been...
View ArticleSWAZI FIREFIGHTERS THREATEN STRIKE
Firefighters in Swaziland are threatening to strike because they are being forced to work in ‘appalling conditions’. Government funding is so bad they have to buy their own uniforms and safety...
View ArticleELECTION VOTES SOLD FOR CHICKEN PIECES
Poverty-stricken textile workers in Swaziland say they have been selling their votes in the forthcoming national election for cash and chicken pieces.Sitting members of parliament have sent their...
View ArticleSWAZI LAW USED AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS
Laws in Swaziland have been used by the State as weapons against human rights defenders, a major investigation of the kingdom by international lawyers revealed.‘There is a growing perception that the...
View Article‘RITUAL KILLINGS LINKED TO ELECTION’
There are ‘widespread speculations’ across Swaziland that a number of recent abductions resulting in mutilations and killings might be related to the ongoing national election in the kingdom, the...
View ArticleHIGH COURT HEARS OF ‘POLICE TORTURE’
A former hotel supervisor told the Swaziland High Court police tortured her to try to make her confess to theft.She said she was handcuffed, beaten, suffocated to near death, and threatened with...
View ArticleMURDER ON THE RISE, SAYS POLICE CHIEF
Murders in Swaziland are on the rise and cases of armed robberies and sexual violence are being reported ‘with a disturbing level of frequency and regularity’, the kingdom’s police commissioner said on...
View ArticleMEDIA TARGET SWAZI POLICE SHORTAGES
Swaziland is so short of resources that police are unable to secure voter registration centres and do their routine work at the same time, according to media reports in the kingdom.Police were unable...
View ArticleELECTION BOARD TARGETS FEWER VOTERS
Swaziland’s Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) is targeting to register fewer voters for the forthcoming nation election than registered at the last poll in 2013.EBC Chairman Chief Gija Dlamini...
View ArticleTOWN BLACK-OUT AS GOVT BILLS UNPAID
An entire town in Swaziland is suffering a month-long power cut because the government has not paid its electricity bill.As the blackout continues news is emerging that the Swazi Government is no...
View ArticleSWAZILAND IN FEAR OF WITCHES
Police in Swaziland fired rubber bullets and teargas to keep a ‘mob’ of 200 people from attacking an elderly women they accused of practising witchcraft.It was one of many cases in the kingdom where...
View ArticleUK TO PROBE SWAZILAND HUMAN RIGHTS
The UK Government is to investigate human rights violations in Swaziland / Eswatini. This comes after a meeting between Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials and human rights...
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SWAZI CABINET GIFT OF GOLD TO KING
The Cabinet of Swaziland / Eswatini gave King Mswati III a ‘luxurious lounge suite trimmed with gold’ as a gift for his 50thbirthday.The absolute monarch also received cheques worth at least E5 million...
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KING GETS DINING SUITE MADE OF GOLD
The Queen Mother gave King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland / Eswatini, a dining room suite made of gold for his 50th birthday.It will go alongside a lounge suite trimmed with gold that...
View ArticleSWAZILAND SOLDIERS ‘BURY MAN ALIVE’
Three soldiers in Swaziland / Eswatini have been charged with assault for burying a man alive after they accused him of stealing a phone from them.It happened at Mbekelweni and is one of many reported...
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KING EATS OFF GOLD, CHILDREN STARVING
In the week that King Mswati III the absolute monarch of Swaziland / Eswatini received dining room and lounge furniture made of gold as birthday gifts it is reported that children collapsed with hunger...
View ArticleELECTION WILL ENTRENCH KING’S POWER
The national election announcedin Swaziland / Eswatini for 21 September 2018 will not give people the opportunity to elect a government. Political parties are banned from taking part and the poll is an...
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KING FINES GUARDS FOR LEAKING PHOTOS
Members of the security personnel of Swaziland’s absolute King have been fined 29 cattle after pictures of his multi-million dollar private jet appeared on social media.Photographs of the wake of the...
View Article‘POLICE BEAT MAN CLOSE TO DEATH’
Community police officers in Swaziland / Eswatini attacked a man described as ‘mentally disturbed’ and beat him close to death, a newspaper in the kingdom reported.The Swazi Observeron Tuesday (12 June...
View ArticleCIVIL SERVANTS ELECTION RESTRICTION
Civil servants in Swaziland / Eswatini who owe government money will be restricted from standing as candidates in the forthcoming national election in the kingdom.This was announced by Principal...
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