Police Forced to Hitch-Hike to Crime and Accident Scenes as...
Police officers in Swaziland are forced to walk or hitch-hike to crime and accident scenes because the government has not paid for fuel or vehicle repairs.Criminals in some parts of the kingdom...
View ArticleSecret CIA Report Reveals Swaziland King Sobhuza’s Support For Apartheid...
Swaziland under King Sobhuza II supported the white-ruled Apartheid government in South Africa because he was afraid that change there would encourage people to press for political reform in his own...
View ArticleDuring Apartheid Era Swaziland Lobbied US and UK Not to Support Sanctions on...
During the height of the Apartheid era, Swaziland lobbied the US and UK Governments not to support economic sanctions on South Africa, a confidential communication from 1978 has revealed.The then Swazi...
View ArticleVoter Bribery Rife in Swaziland in Run-up to First Round of National Election
Bribing of voters is rife in Swaziland as the kingdom gears up for the first round of the discredited national election. Cash, food and alcohol have been distributed and even prisoners in jail have...
View ArticleBribed Swaziland Voters Photograph Their Completed Ballot Papers
Some voters in Swaziland’s election took photographs of their completed ballot papers to prove who they had voted for after accepting bribes. They sent the picture to the candidate making the bribe by...
View ArticleSwaziland must embrace political parties to get on track after years of failure
By Richard Rooney News this week that the Supreme Court in Swaziland (recently renamed Eswatini by the kingdom’s absolute monarch King Mswati III) rejected a claim for political parties to be allowed...
View Article‘Swazi Observer’ story on deaths caused by circumcision as part of plan to...
The Swazi Observer newspaper published a bogus news story on Friday (24 August 2018) saying that men who had been circumcised to minimise HIV infection would likely die after 10 years.The Observersaid...
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Swaziland Police Shoot and Wound Teacher at Protest Over Pay, Tensions High...
Police in Swaziland shot and wounded a schoolteacher when they opened fire with live ammunition during a protest about salaries.It happened on Friday (24 August 2018) in Manzini, the kingdom’s main...
View ArticleChaos and Violence Reported Across Swaziland as Voters go to the Polls
Voters held police and polling officials hostage as violence broke out across Swaziland during the first round of the national election on Saturday (25 August 2018).There were scenes of ‘total chaos’...
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Teacher Who Tackled Gun-Wielding Swaziland Police Commander Arrested
Schoolteacher Maxwell Myeni who tackled a gun-wielding police commander and wrestled him to the ground during a peaceful demonstration in Swaziland in which police shot and wounded a demonstrator has...
View ArticleFirst Round of Swaziland Election Marred by Inefficiency and Fear of...
The first round of voting at Swaziland’s national election was marred by reports of inefficiency and fear of vote-rigging. Many polling stations opened or closed late and some people were unable to...
View ArticleIndependent Election Observers in Swaziland Barred From Some Polling...
Independent observers at Swaziland’s elections were refused access to some polling stations until they had signed secrecy forms restricting what they could report.They were told to get the form...
View ArticlePornographic Photos and Sex Tourists: The Sleazy Side of Swaziland’s Reed Dance
Photographs of the women and girls who dance bare breasted and in short skirts and some with no underwear in front of Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III at the traditional Reed Dance are...
View ArticleFears Grow of Vote-Rigging and Malpractice in Swaziland Election
Fears of vote rigging during the first round of the Swaziland election are growing. The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) received complaints about malpractice from across the kingdom.Most...
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Swaziland Teacher Who Stopped Police Chief Shooting Into Unarmed Crowd...
Musa Maxwell Zondinkhundla Myeni, the schoolteacher in Swaziland who came to international attention after he wrestled a gun-wielding police chief to the ground to stop him firing at teachers during a...
View ArticlePolice in Swaziland Attack Nurses With Taser During Peaceful Protest Over Pay
Police in Swaziland attacked nurses with tasers during a peaceful demonstration against pay in the kingdom’s capital.The attack was unprovoked, according to the Times of Swaziland newspaper.It came...
View ArticlePolling Station Riot and Fresh Accusations of Vote-Rigging Reported at...
More accusations of vote-rigging and illegal practice during the first round of Swaziland’s election are emerging with calls for some votes to be re-run.The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC)...
View ArticleSwaziland Police Fire Gunshots During Textiles Dispute, Third Attack on...
Swaziland police fired several gunshot blasts while textile workers, mostly women, protested about poor pay. It was the third police attack on workers in a week and one of many in recent times.More...
View ArticleSwaziland Election Officer Reveals MPs Sell Their Votes When Electing...
A senior election official in Swaziland said corrupt members of the House of Assembly were selling their votes when they elect the kingdom’s senators.In Swaziland no member of the 30-member Senate is...
View ArticleSwaziland Police Beat-Up Journalist Photographing Them Attacking, Shooting At...
Police in Swaziland beat up a journalist and demanded he delete photographs he took of them attacking and shooting at striking textile workers.It was one of many cases of police and state forces...
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