UNREST AT SWAZI KING’S NEWSPAPER
Media workers protest against working conditions at king’s newspaperKenworthy News Media, 11 August 2016 SOURCEMembers of the Media Workers Union of Swaziland (MWUS) have gathered near the offices of...
View ArticleABSOLUTE KING TAKES CHAIR OF SADC
Absolute monarchy assumes chairmanship of SADCKenworthy News Media, 16 August 16SOURCE Swaziland assumes the chairmanship of the Southern African Development Community for the first time ever on...
View ArticleKINGDOM FAILS SADC DELEGATES
King Mswati III, the autocratic King in Swaziland and soon-to-be Chair of SADC, has been exposed for misleading the 15-nation community that his kingdom was capable of holding the organisation’s...
View ArticleSWAZI MAIDENS LEARN POLITICAL SONGS
The political dimension of Swaziland’s annual Reed Dance was at the fore this week as thousands of supposed-virgins were taught songs in praise of the kingdom’s autocratic monarch, King Mswati III.The...
View ArticlePOLICE FIRE SHOTS AT WORKERS’ STRIKE
Riot police in Swaziland fired shots over the heads of striking workers who were protesting for an increase in pay of the equivalent of 35 US cents per hour.Two shots were fired by the Royal Swaziland...
View ArticleDISPUTE OVER REED DANCE SAFETY
Organisers have said 98,000 ‘maidens’ were transported in 80 buses to attend Swaziland’s Reed Dance where they would dance half-naked in front of King Mswati III. But newspapers and social media have...
View ArticleNEW SADC CHAIR ‘EXPLOITS CHILD LABOUR’
King Mswati III of Swaziland who has just taken the Chair of SADC has been revealed to exploit child labour on his fields. He has been named in an international report on the trafficking of people.The...
View ArticleTHE NOT-SO-GENEROUS SWAZI KING
The Swazi Observer, a newspaper in effect owned by King Mswati III, got a little over-excited in its reporting of its patron and the Reed Dance.On Monday (29 August 2016) it gushed that the King, who...
View ArticleKING’S NEW UNWORKABLE UNIVERSITY
It took King Mswati III of Swaziland less than one day to make his first unworkable promise as Chair of SDAC.The King, who rules the impoverished tiny kingdom as sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute...
View ArticleBOTSWANA OPPOSITION REJECTS KING
The main opposition political party in Botswana has rejected King Mswati III’s appointment as Chair of SADC because of the restriction on democracy in Swaziland.The King was appointed Chair at the...
View Article‘BLAME KING FOR PROBLEMS’- DUBE
Swazi criticism of government at ‘people’s parliament’ is misplacedKenworthy News Media, 8 September 2016 SOURCEThe recent criticism of the Swazi government from many Swazis is misplaced. They should...
View ArticleORDER BILL BLOCKS POLITICAL PARTIES
The committee appointed to pilot Swaziland’s Public Order Bill has said it would not allow political parties to be legalised in the kingdom.At present Swaziland is ruled by King Mswati III who is...
View ArticleTHE HUNGRY DEFY CHRISTIAN LEADERS
Hungry people in Swaziland defied Christian leaders and attended a Muslim ceremony, because free meat was being given away.As part of the Islamic Eid-ul-Adah ceremony Muslims slaughter meat and give...
View ArticleUNISWA STUDENTS SLEEP IN STOREROOMS
Students at the University of Swaziland (UNISWA) are being forced to sleep in poorly ventilated storerooms as an accommodation crisis grows.Students began a class boycott on Monday (12 September 2016)...
View ArticlePOLICE FIRE RUBBER BULLETS ON STRIKERS
Riot police in Swaziland are under fire for using rubber bullets and teargas against striking workers.A strike at Swaziland Plantation has entered its second month amid clashes between police and...
View ArticleKING’S AIRPORT PASSENGERS FLOP
Fewer than 80 passengers a day on average flew out of the KM III International Airport in Swaziland during the three months ending June 2016, latest figures reveal.If the statistics revealed by the...
View ArticleWILLIAM, 82, CHALLENGES THE KING
William dared to challenge the KingKenworthy News Media, 16 September 2016 SOURCENot many Swazis dare to criticize Swaziland’s absolute monarch openly, but 82-year-old William Mkhaliphi did, to the...
View ArticleCOURT: TERROR ACT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Swaziland’s High Court has ruled that sections of the Suppression of Terrorism Act and the Sedition and Subversive Activities Act are unconstitutional.Judges ruled that the Acts contravened provisions...
View ArticlePOLICE ‘BRUTALLY ASSUALT’ WORKERS
Striking plantation workers in Swaziland were ‘brutally assaulted’ by police, a local newspaper has reported.The displayed bruised and injured legs where they were physically battered by Royal...
View Article‘UNDERCOVER COPS INFILTRATE MOSQUE’
Muslims in Swaziland say undercover police are infiltrating their mosques to attend Friday prayers.The Times of Swaziland, the only independent daily newspaper in the overwhelmingly Christian kingdom,...
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