Swaziland’s Independent Observation Group Says Election ‘Free And Fair’ But...
The Coordinating Assembly of NGOs (CANGO) which led 10 local groups as an Elections Network to observe the first round of Swaziland’s election found a list of shortcomings including voter bribery,...
View ArticlePolice Spy Discovered And Ejected From Swaziland Teachers’ Union Conference
Teachers in Swaziland discovered a police spy at their union conference and threw him out.His name and photograph and a picture of the car he was using was published on social media.It was one in a...
View ArticleSwaziland’s Banned Political Party PUDEMO Elects New President, Leadership
Kenworthy News Media, 4 September 2018SOURCEThe People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO), the largest democratic movement in Swaziland, elected a new leadership at its General Congress last...
View ArticleVote-Rigging Claims During Swaziland’s Election Grow. Calls For Some Polls To...
More allegations of vote-rigging and malpractice have surfaced in the wake of the first round of Swaziland’s election. Voters at Mabantaneni in Lubulini called on the Elections and Boundaries...
View ArticleWith Poverty, The King’s Greed And Human Rights Abuses There’s Nothing To...
Swaziland (recently renamed Eswatini by the kingdom’s absolute monarch King Mswati III) marked the 50thanniversary of independence from Great Britain on 6 September 2018. But there’s not much to...
View ArticleMedia Freedom Group Calls On SADC To Investigate Swaziland For...
A media rights group is calling on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to investigate Swaziland after a series of ‘state-sponsored violations against journalists’.The Media Institute of...
View ArticleSwaziland Senior Election Officer Calls For Arrest Of ‘Prominent People’ Who...
Ncumbi Maziya, a senior member of Swaziland’s elections commission, says ‘prominent people’ are rigging the kingdom’s election and he wants them arrested.Swaziland (recently renamed Eswatini by...
View ArticleSwaziland Police Confront Nurses Protesting About Health Cuts, Medicine...
Police in Swaziland blocked nurses who were legally trying to deliver a petition to government as part of their ongoing campaign against service cuts.One local newspaper reported a policeman’s baton...
View ArticleSwaziland Police Block Protest March Against Election Vote-Rigging
Police in Swaziland blocked people from marching in protest about vote-rigging at the recent election.They said they did not have permission to march.It happened near the Madlenya Royal Kraal in...
View ArticleTwo More Human Rights Groups Condemn Swaziland Police Attack on Journalist
Two more human rights groups have joined a growing chorus of condemnation of Swaziland after a journalist was attacked by police when he photographed them during a workers’ protest in which they fired...
View ArticleLow Turnout At Swaziland Election Fuels Doubts About Support For King’s...
Fewer than one in three people who registered to vote actually did so in the first round of Swaziland’s national election, an analysis of poll data reveals.The low turnout raises the question whether...
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In Full Public View, On Hand And Knees Student Begs Swaziland King For...
Mpilwenhle Matsebula begs King Mswati Swaziland’s absolute monarch (far left) for a university scholarship. (Picture: Swazi Observer)A female university student got down on her hands and knees in front...
View Article‘Mentally Challenged’ Man In Swaziland Jailed 10 Months For Stealing Bottles...
A man described as ‘mentally challenged’ was jailed for ten months in Swaziland for stealing alcohol from a bottle store after it had closed for the night.Ntokozo ‘Early Bird’ Ndzimandze, aged 34,...
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Women Election Candidates in Swaziland Forced to Address Voters on Their...
Some women candidates in the election in Swaziland are forced to kneel while they address voters. It is to show respect for men, a local newspaper reported.The Times of Swaziland said candidates for...
View ArticleWomen in Swaziland Still Have Long Way to go to Achieve Equality, Reports...
Women’s rights continue to be ‘a challenging issue’ in Swaziland, a report just published by Afrobarometer states.‘Violence and abuse are a major development concern in eSwatini [the new name for...
View ArticleSix Children Die in Swaziland in Diarrhoea Outbreak. Vaccines Short Since...
At least six children in Swaziland died this week from diarrhoea and many more are sick because the government is broke and cannot pay for vaccines. It would cost US$6 for the vaccine to immunise a...
View ArticleSwaziland (Eswatini) Election 2018: Links to Information and Analysis From...
On Friday 21 September 2018 the final round of elections (known as the Secondary Election) takes place in Swaziland (recently renamed Eswatini by its absolute monarch King Mswati III).Political parties...
View ArticleSwaziland Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal to Unban Political Parties at...
Swaziland’s Supreme Court dismissed a case that political parties should not be banned from contesting the election in the kingdom without hearing arguments.It upheld an appeal to the High Court’s...
View ArticleSwaziland Police Whip Women Theft Suspects, Scald With Boiling Water. Two...
Police in Swaziland are taking the law into their own hands by whipping women they suspect of stealing from shops.It adds to growing evidence that police in the tiny kingdom (recently renamed Eswatini...
View ArticleSwaziland Heading For Lowest Election Turnout as Ordinary People Support...
Swaziland could be heading for the lowest election turnout in its modern history on Friday (21 September 2018).Swaziland (recently renamed Eswatini by King Mswati III) is ruled by an absolute monarch,...
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