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Absolute King of impoverished Swaziland buys himself and wives 20 Rolls-Royce...

King Mswati III, the absolute monarch, of impoverished Swaziland (eSwatini), has spent about US$15 million on 19 top-of-the-range Rolls-Royce cars for his wives and a customised Rolls-Royce Cullinan...

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Swaziland students boycott classes as Govt. breaks promise to pay allowances

Students in Swaziland (eSwatini) boycotted classes and at least one college has been closed after the government failed to honour its promise to pay allowances.Some students have been without payment...

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Swaziland police fire gunshots and shoot student with rubber bullet as campus...

Police in Swaziland (eSwatini) fired live ammunition and shot a university student with a rubber bullet as class boycotts entered their second day.It was the latest police shooting during legal...

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Swaziland soldiers reportedly beat pregnant woman in latest case of assault...

Soldiers in Swaziland (eSwatini) have again been accused of beating and humiliating innocent civilians.The latest incidents were reported to have happened at Nsubane in the southeast of the kingdom...

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King of impoverished Swaziland takes delivery of 79 BMW cars

King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of impoverished Swaziland (eSwatini), has taken delivery of 79 luxury BMW cars worth about US$6 million.This happened a week after he took delivery of...

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Swaziland political parties unite in bid to end absolute king’s power

Political parties in Swaziland – some of them outlawed – have joined together to try to force an end to the rule of absolute monarch, King Mswati III.Their leaders intend to march on Wednesday (13...

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Threat to censor U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland after criticism of King’s...

Authorities in Swaziland (eSwatini) want to censor future public speeches by the US Ambassador Lisa Peterson after she criticised the kingdom’s absolute monarch King Mswati III for his lavish spending...

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Swaziland King’s purchase of 15 Roll-Royces came from private money, not...

The Prime Minister of Swaziland (eSwatini) Ambrose Dlamini said that the fleet of 15 Rolls-Royce vehicles purchased by the kingdom’s absolute monarch King Mswati III were paid for by private money and...

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Swaziland’s democracy activist is the real ‘Super Mario’

I met the real Super MarioKenworth News MediaSOURCE Peter Kenworthy meets Mario MasukuI cannot claim to have met Nelson Mandela. Or Steve Biko. Or Patrice Lumumba. Or Thomas Sankara. But I have met...

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Swaziland Govt minister is far from truth when she praises media freedom in...

Princess Sikhanyiso, the Minister of Information, Communication and Technology in Swaziland (eSwatini), was just plain misleading when she told a meeting of editors in the kingdom, ‘A free media is not...

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Move to call textile workers’ pay strike in Swaziland as firms give gifts to...

A trade union representing textile workers in Swaziland (eSwatini) is planning a strike before Christmas, accusing Taiwanese-owned businesses in the kingdom of colluding with the government to underpay...

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Swaziland Govt. Minister wants to monitor all foreign ambassadors and score...

The Swaziland (eSwatini) Government will monitor the United States Ambassador to the kingdom and other senior foreign diplomats to see how well they ‘market’ the kingdom, if Senator Thuli Dladla,...

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Swaziland Senator Princess Phumelele says woman have duty to give husbands...

A member of parliament and member of the Royal Family in Swaziland (eSwatini) Senator Princess Phumelelesaid women had a duty to allow their husbands to have sex with them and they should not...

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Swaziland community police strip theft suspects naked and beat their buttocks...

Community police officers in Swaziland (eSwatini) paraded naked five suspected thieves and severely beat them on their buttocks. At least two needed hospital treatment.It happened at KaMasuku and is...

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Swaziland King buys himself fleet of 15 Rolls-Royce cars but there’s no money...

There are only 16 working public ambulances to serve the whole of Swaziland (eSwatini). Another 12 are off the road in need of repair but there is no money to fix them. The news came at the same time...

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Five starve to death in Swaziland as drought and maize restrictions bite

Five elderly women in the Nsalitje area of Swaziland (eSwatini) have starved to death and many more are said to be quietly being killed by hunger.An ongoing draught and restrictions on importing cheap...

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Swaziland editor writes absolute monarch is ‘unhinged’ and ‘a narcissist’ and...

Bheki Makhubu, a magazine editor in Swaziland (eSwatini), has written that absolute monarch King Mswati III is ‘unhinged’. He also called the king ‘a first class narcissist who no longer identifies...

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Swaziland ex-Govt minister in hiding after calling on absolute monarch to...

A former government minister in Swaziland (eSwatini) is in hiding from police after he publicly called on absolute monarch King Mswati III to hand over power to the people.Musa Nkambule, former...

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Rapes double in three months in Swaziland, violent crime on steady increase

The number of rapes reported in Swaziland (eSwatini) more than doubled in a three-month period. Violent crime is on a steady increase and house breaking and theft have also risen, according to an...

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One in three female students at Swaziland university sexually assaulted in...

More than one in three female students at the University of eSwatini reported they had been sexually assaulted in one year, academic research just published reveals.The assault was most commonly...

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