Land is Power in Swaziland: Amnesty International Report Highlights Forced...
Kenworthy News Media, 16 September 2018SOURCE A new Amnesty International report focuses on forced evictions of poor farmers in Swaziland carried out by local police. Land and forced evictions are...
View ArticleSwaziland Set for Days of Strikes and Protests in Run-up to National Election
Waves of strikes and protests are expected in Swaziland in the days running up to the national election. Public servants and others are protesting about poor wages. Teachers and nurses are expected to...
View ArticleElection Observer Group From African Union to Examine Level of Political...
The African Union (AU) says it will investigate the level of political rights people have in Swaziland as part of its mission to observe the kingdom’s national election.At total of 30 observers will be...
View ArticleSwazis Want Democracy Not Just Elections - New Independent Research Report
Kenworthy News Media, 18 September 2018 SOURCESwaziland will hold national elections on Friday (21 September 2018) amid waves of strikes and protests. A new survey from Afrobarometer shows that few...
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Swazi Police Shoot At Demonstrators During Legal Strike Over Pay
Kenworthy News Media SOURCESeveral workers were badly injured from beatings, rubber bullets and teargas fired by police in riot gear during demonstrations for better wages and working conditions in...
View ArticleVicious Attack by Swaziland Police on Defenceless Workers Captured on Video
Police officers in Swaziland have been captured on video viciously attacking defenceless workers on the street in Manzini during a legal protest over pay.Dozens of officers in riot gear and waving...
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Widespread Condemnation of Swaziland Police Brutal Attacks on Workers
Condemnation of the Swaziland police’s brutal attack on protesting workers is growing. In the week up to the kingdom’s national election trade unionists organised by the Trade Union Congress of...
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Police Turn Swaziland City Into ‘Warzone’ as National Strike Enters Second Day
Police in Swaziland turned the city of Manzini into a ‘battlefield’ and ‘warzone’ on the second day of the national strike in the kingdom.The Swazi Observer, a newspaper in effect owned by King Mswati...
View ArticleSwaziland Police fire gunshots, set off grenades and rubber bullets as voters...
Police fired gunshots in the air and grenades and rubber bullets during Swaziland’s election as voters protested against completed ballot papers being taken away from a polling centre.It happened late...
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Violence, corruption, vote-buying reported in Swaziland election. Journalists...
Violence and allegations of corruption and malpractice in Swaziland’s election have been reported from across the kingdom.There were chaotic scenes in polling centres on Friday (21 September 2018), the...
View ArticleSwaziland Court Forces Teachers To Postpone Strike, Bans Public Servants’...
The Swaziland Industrial Court has forced teachers to postpone a strike planned to start on Tuesday and banned outright one by public service workers.The rulings came days after police violently...
View ArticleSwaziland Election Observer Groups Say Vote Was ‘Peaceful’ But Fall Short Of...
None of the three official observer groups reporting so far on the Swaziland election have concluded it was ‘free and fair’.People went to the polls on Friday (21 September 2018) in the kingdom...
View ArticlePeople Offer Bribes to Members of Swaziland’s House of Assembly For Seat on...
Credible evidence is emerging that people are offering bribes to members of the House of Assembly to be given a seat on the Swaziland Senate.Swaziland is an absolute monarchy and none of the 30 members...
View ArticleNo Food For Hospital Patients As Broke Swaziland Government Leaves Supplier...
The public hospital in Swaziland’s capital city Mbabane has run out of food for patients because the government has not paid its bills to suppliers. It is the latest in the long line of cases of the...
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Swaziland Teachers Want U.S. to Tell Absolute Monarch to Stop Wasting Public...
Schoolteachers in Swaziland want the United States to tell the kingdom’s absolute monarch King Mswati III to ‘stop wasting public resources’ on expensive overseas’ trips and use the money to pay salary...
View ArticleSwaziland Photojournalist Assaulted, Camera Taken While Covering Protest...
A Swaziland journalist was assaulted by marchers as he took photographs at a teachers’ protest.Mduduzi Mngomezulu, a photojournalist with the Swazi Observer, ‘was manhandled and assaulted by the...
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Swaziland Former Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini Dies. Known as Serial Abuser...
Swaziland’s former Prime Minister and serial human rights abuser Barnabas Dlamini has died aged 76.Dlamini was appointed Prime Minister four times by King Mswati III who rules Swaziland as sub-Saharan...
View ArticleGovernment Group Calls For Investigation Into Violence During Swaziland Election
Swaziland’s Commission on Human Rights and Public Administration Integrity (CHRPAI) has called for an investigation into the violence that occurred during the recent election.CHRPAI Commissioner Sabelo...
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Swaziland Police Ready to Invigilate School Exams During Teachers’ Pay Dispute
Police officers in Swaziland are being prepared so they can go into schools and invigilate exams if teachers who are campaigning for a pay rise refuse to do the job. More than 500 police officers are...
View ArticleArmed Police Deployed in Schools Across Swaziland to Ensure Exams Take Place...
Armed police were deployed at schools across Swaziland to make sure exams took place during a teachers’ pay dispute.They went to ‘almost all schools’ in the kingdom on Monday (1 October 2018), the...
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