NEWEST UPDATES ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Swaziland spent an uncomfortable time at the United Nations in May hearing organisations from within the kingdom and outside give details accounts of human rights violations committed by King Mswati...
View ArticleALL ASIANS BANNED FROM SWAZILAND
All Asian people have been banned from entering Swaziland after the kingdom’s Parliament suspended issuing entry permits.A committee has been formed to look at ‘loopholes’ in the immigration system,...
View ArticleSICK KIDS HIDDEN TO SAVE SWAZI IMAGE
Two disabled orphan children in Swaziland have been hidden from the world after a government official told their family it would harm the image of the kingdom if people knew of their condition.The...
View ArticleKING BUYS JET AS UN BAILS KINGDOM OUT
Only days after it was revealed that Swaziland’s King Mswati III was about to receive a private jet worth about US$14 million paid for by his Government comes news that the United Nations has donated...
View ArticleNO FUNDS TO PROTECT DROUGHT KIDS
While the Swaziland Government fails to deliver on its promise to fund drought relief in the kingdom, the global agency UNICEF has reported that it has been unable to raise a single dollar to protect...
View ArticleHIDDEN SICK KIDS: UNICEF RESPONDS
UNICEF – the United Nations Children’s Fund – has spoken out against discrimination of disabled children in Swaziland.It comes after newspaper and blogreports of two children aged eight and 16 who have...
View ArticleDROUGHT: ‘PEOPLE DIED OF HUNGER’
People have died of hunger in Swaziland because the Swazi Government has failed to deliver food to drought-stricken areas, a member of the House of Assembly has said.James Simelane, Member of...
View ArticleKING’S SPENDING: U.S. ‘MIGHT HALT AID’
Lisa Peterson, the US ambassador to Swaziland, has said the kingdom might not receive further food aid from her country because of the Swazi King’s ‘lavish spending’ on holidays.She was responding to...
View ArticleSWAZI QUEENS’ HISTORY OF EXCESS
The luxury trip to Florida costing about US$1 million by at least three of the wives of King Mswati III of Swaziland and an entourage of about 100 people continues a tradition of lavish spending by...
View ArticleUK UNIONS BACK SWAZI RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
Over the past 18 months, Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) has received support from UNISON to build international support for human rights and democracy in Swaziland, the UK Trades Union Congress...
View ArticleASIANS EVICTED FROM HOME
Following Swaziland’s decision to ban all Asian people from entering the kingdom comes news that a group of Asians have been evicted from their home and banished from the area simply because they are...
View ArticleCHILD’S RIGHTS ABUSED IN SWAZILAND
Children’s rights in Swaziland are under protected and are in a ‘difficult situation,’ according to a global survey.The kingdom, ruled by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch,...
View ArticleRACISM IN ‘TIMES SUNDAY’
One of Swaziland’s few independent newspapers the Times Sunday has made a concerted attack on ‘Asians’ in the kingdom, declaring them to be cheats and scoundrals.It follows the decision of the Swazi...
View ArticleHUGE RISE IN SWAZI KING’S BUDGET
Swaziland’s King Mswati III’s royal budget has been increased to US$69.8 million in the current financial year, an international news agency has reported.The Anadolu Agencyquoted official figures from...
View ArticleSWAZIS CAMP OUT TO BEG KING FOR JOBS
Desperately poor people in Swaziland have been camping outside one of King Mswati III’s offices over many months to ‘beg’ the King for work, according to local media.They said they would rather die...
View ArticleCUSTOM LAW LETS HUSBANDS RAPE WIVES
Rape of a wife by her husband is legal in Swaziland under newly-documented Indigenous Swazi Law and Custom. A man can also legally rape his lover.The Times of Swaziland,the only independent daily...
View ArticleROYAL GREED SOLD AS SWAZI CULTURE
Royal greed and oppression sold as culture in SwazilandKenworthy News Media, 3 August 2016 SOURCESwaziland’s king Mswati III passes suppression, unaccountability and royal opulent spending in the face...
View ArticleBOY, 8, FLOGGED SO HARD HE VOMITS
An eight-year-old schoolboy in Swaziland was thrashed so hard in class he vomited. It is feared he might have internal bleeding as a result.And, his teacher forced classmates to hold the boy down while...
View Article‘DICTATOR KING NOT FIT TO CHAIR SADC’
Political and workers’ leaders in Botswana have said King Mswati III of Swaziland should not take the chair of SADC later this month (August 2016), because he is a ‘dictator’ in his own kingdom.The...
View ArticlePOWERLESS PEOPLE’ S PARLIAMENT
Kenworthy News Media10 August 2016 SOURCEThe Sibaya ”People’s Parliament,” where Swaziland’s absolute monarch summons his subjects to the royal cattle byre to discuss pressing issues, was held over the...
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