Total number of coronavirus test results received by Swaziland Ministry of...
The Swaziland (eSwatini) Health Ministry has received 324 results of coronavirus tests sent to South Africa in total since 15 March 2020.The information has dribbled out from the Swaziland Government...
View ArticleSwaziland police and soldiers ‘demand bribes’ to let businesses stay open...
Police and soldiers in Swaziland (eSwatini) have been accused of demanding bribes from businesses to allow them to stay open during the coronavirus lockdown.It happened in the main commercial city of...
View ArticleMore businesses in Swaziland to close as Govt tightens coronavirus lockdown
The Swaziland (eSwatini) Government announced that all non-essential businesses in the kingdom should close down from Friday (3 April 2020) as measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic are stepped...
View ArticleNumber of passengers in private cars in Swaziland to be restricted during...
The number of people allowed to travel in private cars in Swaziland (eSwatini) will be restricted as part of the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19).Chief Ndlaluhlaza Ndwandwe, Minister of Public...
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Swaziland Govt steps up search for coronavirus victims, nurses say they still...
The Ministry of Health in Swaziland (eSwatini) is sending teams of people door-to-door to check if people have the coronavirus.The kingdom is currently in partial lockdown with many businesses closed...
View ArticleSwaziland armed police, army intimidate people to obey coronavirus lockdown....
Armed military police officers in Swaziland (eSwatini) forced members of the public to do press-ups when they were found at a bus rank during the present coronavirus lockdown.Separately, an 85-year-old...
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Swaziland to start own coronavirus testing, but only 100 a day for 1.3...
The Swaziland (eSwatini) Ministry of Health is preparing to start testing for coronavirus within the kingdom for the first time since the pandemic crisis started last month.Swazi Health Minister Lizzie...
View ArticleSwaziland Govt or agents ‘committed unlawful killings’, new human rights...
The Swaziland (eSwatini) government and its agents committed ‘arbitrary or unlawful killings’, according to reports, the latest United States report on human rights in the kingdom states.The annual...
View ArticleAnniversary of day Swaziland stopped being a democracy and became absolute...
It was 47 years ago today (12 April 2020) that Swaziland (now known as eSwatini) stopped being a parliamentary democracy and became an absolute monarchy.On 12 April 1973 King Sobhuza II proclaimed a...
View ArticleMore reports of police and army violence against civilians as Swaziland...
A lawyer was left with broken ribs after soldiers assaulted him, two women were whipped with sticks by police and a man was hospitalised after police beat him about the head with a baton. These are...
View ArticleAssault on human rights follows coronavirus lockdown in Swaziland
Although there were no reported deaths and only nine reported cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) by the end of March, King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini) declared a state of...
View ArticleSwaziland bans alcohol production and sales, threatens media as coronavirus...
Swaziland (eSwatini) is to ban the production and distribution of alcohol as the partial lockdown of the kingdom due to coronavirus is extended for a further three weeks.Prime Minster Ambrose Dlamini...
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Swaziland’s absolute monarch extends coronavirus lockdown: P.M. statement
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini), has extended the coronavirus lockdown in his kingdom for a further 21 days, his Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini announced on Wednesday (15...
View ArticleSwaziland records first coronavirus death, but relaxes lockdown. Buses to run...
Swaziland (eSwatini) has recorded its first death from the coronavirus (COVID-19), Minister of Health Lizzie Nkosi confirmed on Thursday (16 April 2020). It came a day after the Swazi Government...
View ArticleThe power behind the throne? How a teenager became Swaziland’s king
There has been a bit of activity on social media recently with people speculating about how would eSwatini choose a new king if the need arose. You might be interested in reading something I wrote back...
View ArticleSwaziland security forces whip destitute woman searching for food during...
Security forces in Swaziland (eSwatini) whipped a destitute woman as she desperately searched for food for her three children during the present coronavirus lockdown.She was one of hundreds left...
View ArticleSwaziland nurses’ union calls for closure of major hospital in fight against...
Nurses in Swaziland (eSwatini) want a major hospital closed down, the patients discharged, and then it reopened as a scaled-down coronavirus centre.Healthcare is in disarray across the kingdom and...
View ArticlePeople face ‘imminent death from hunger’ in Swaziland as coronavirus lockdown...
People in a township in Swaziland (eSwatini) face ‘imminent death from hunger’ after they lost their jobs because of the coronavirus shutdown in the kingdom. Some are scavenging for edible weeds to...
View ArticleMPs demand Govt. action as hunger spreads across Swaziland during coronavirus...
The House of Assembly in Swaziland (eSwatini) has demanded immediate action from the government as hunger spreads across the kingdom and doctors and nurses continue to be without vital personal...
View Article‘No media freedom’ in Swaziland, Reporters Without Borders annual report states
There is ‘no media freedom’ in Swaziland (eSwatini) according to the Reporters Without Borders 2020 World Press Freedom Index just published.It described the kingdom as an ‘absolute monarchy that...
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