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Swaziland King reportedly hiding $30 million of Libyan money for Jacob Zuma
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland / Eswatini, is reportedly hiding US$30 million of money from Libya for his friend Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa.The Sunday Times...
View ArticleSwaziland in economic freefall with human rights failings, report shows
The gap between rich and poor is widening and the kingdom faces ‘an unprecedented economic crisis’: these were two of the main concerns of Finance Minister Neal Rijkenberg in his national budget for...
View ArticleReasonable grounds two Swaziland police officers killed suspect in custody,...
There were ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe two Swaziland police officers killed Luciano Zavale who had been arrested for allegedly having a stolen CD writer in his possession, a coroner has ruled....
View ArticleSwaziland’s absolute monarch appoints 28 members of his family to kingdom’s...
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland / eSwatini, has appointed seventeen members of his own family to the kingdom’s two most influential advisory committees.This is in addition to the...
View ArticleSwaziland prince who called on dissenting journalists to be killed, dies
Prince Mahlaba, a senior member of the Swazi Royal Family who called for journalists who opposed King Mswati III to be killed, has died.Mahlaba was a stanch opponent of democracy in Swaziland /...
View ArticleNorwegian Labour Party criticises Swaziland King for neglecting own people
Kenworthy News Media,SOURCEThe largest political party in the Norwegian parliament, the Norwegian Labour Party Arbeiderpartiet, criticised the absolute monarchy of Swaziland in a resolution presented...
View ArticleMay Day in Swaziland recalls time when State murdered activist Sipho Jele
As workers and pro-democracy activists in Swaziland / eSwatini mark Workers’ Day on Wednesday (1 May 2019) many will remember Sipho Jele who was killed by state forces in 2010.The 35-year-old Jele was...
View ArticleSwaziland journalist beaten for investigating bishop’s sex with schoolgirl...
A journalist in Swaziland /eSwatini needed hospital treatment after he was beaten by family members of a prominent bishop in the kingdom. Zwelethu Dlamini had been following up a story that Bishop...
View ArticleJournalists in Swaziland endure year of harassment as they try to do their jobs
As World Press Freedom Day is celebrated across the globe, journalists in Swaziland / eSwatini face almost continual harassment as they go about their work.A survey by Swazi Media Commentary shows that...
View ArticleNo appetite in Swaziland to investigate human rights abuses, corruption: U.S....
There is no appetite to investigate human rights abuses or corruption in Swaziland /eSwatini, the latest report from the United States Department of Stateconcluded. Swaziland is controlled by King...
View ArticleSwaziland absolute monarch tries to sell his undemocratic kingdom to the world
Swaziland / eSwatini, which is ruled by King Mswati III as an absolute monarch, has started a campaign to encourage people internationally to support the kingdom’s undemocratic political system.In...
View ArticleNew report reveals widespread corruption across Swaziland, especially among...
Corruption was widespread in Swaziland / eSwatini during 2018, a new report on human rights abuses in the kingdom reveals.The United States Department of State reported, ‘there was a widespread public...
View ArticlePrisoners in Swaziland jail face beatings and humiliation from warders,...
Prisoners in jails in Swaziland / eSwatini routinely face illegal beatings from warders and constant humiliations, according to testimony from a former inmate at Sidwashini Correctional Facility.The...
View ArticleSwaziland police fire rubber bullets at schoolchildren protesting sexual...
Police fired rubber bullets and teargas at pupils at a school in Swaziland /eSwatini when they protested about sexual abuse on them by a teacher.It happened at Mhubhe High School at Ngculwini, 15 km...
View ArticleHigh Court ruling banning news report another blow to press freedom in Swaziland
Media freedom in Swaziland / eSwatini suffered another blow with a High Court decision to ban a newspaper from reporting on the people behind the Farmers Bank that was recently set up in the...
View ArticleSwaziland schoolchildren learn under trees or in tents as government runs out...
Schoolchildren in Swaziland /eSwatini are being taught under trees or in tents instead of classrooms because the government is broke and cannot afford new buildings.Some schools are relying on the Red...
View ArticleMore deaths in Swaziland as government fails to pay medicine suppliers
People have died in Swaziland / eSwatini as medicine has run out because the government has not paid suppliers.At least three patients using the Nhlangano Health Centre died because they could not get...
View ArticleMore money goes to Swaziland’s absolute monarch, despite kingdom’s financial...
The conglomerate of businesses that partly finances the lavish lifestyle of Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III increased its revenue by 26 percent in the year ending 2017, according to...
View ArticleFormer Swaziland student leader and rights activist Musa Ngubeni jailed after...
Kenworthy News MediaSOURCEFormer student leader and human rights activist Musa Ngubeni was convicted of contravening Swaziland’s Explosives Act of 1961 by magistrate Joe Gumedze on Tuesday (14 May...
View ArticleSwaziland absolute monarch gets millions in cash as birthday gifts while...
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of impoverished Swaziland /eSwatini, received E3.5 million cash, including E300,000 from a state workers’ pension fund, in birthday gifts.He also received other...
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