‘HORROR TALE OF SWAZI POLICE TORTURE’
More detailed accounts of Swaziland police ‘torture’ against women workers have been published in a local newspaper. The women were reportedly ambushed by armed police and ‘brutally attacked’ during a...
View ArticleSOCCER GURU HARASSES JOURNALISTS
Swazi soccer guru harasses journalists with impunityKenworthy News Media, 21 September 2016 SOURCESoccer guru Victor Gumedze has allegedly assaulted a journalist and ordered another fired because they...
View ArticleKING BUYS JET BUT NO MONEY FOR FOOD
In the week that it was revealed that Swaziland had paid E90 million (US$6.4m) as a deposit on a private jet for King Mswati III it was announced that 500,000 Swazi people – nearly half the population...
View Article‘TORTURE’ POLICE INVESTIGATE SELVES
Police in Swaziland are to investigate themselves after reports that officers ambushed and tortured striking workers.An unnamed senior officer was reported in the Swazi Observer newspaper saying, ‘We...
View ArticleBOY, 16, HELD IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
A 16-year-old boy in Swaziland has been kept in solitary confinement for five months, although he has not been sentenced for a crime.He had been granted bail of E2,000 (US$145) but his family have been...
View ArticleSWAZI TERROR DECISION TO BE APPEALED
Swaziland’s Attorney General Majahenkhaba Dlamini is to appeal the High Court ruling that sections of the Suppression of Terrorism Act and the Sedition and Subversive Act are unconstitutional. Now, the...
View ArticleVERBAL ASSUALTS ON SWAZILAND’S ASIANS
The belief that many Swazi people have of themselves as friendly and peaceful people took a battering on Wednesday (5 October 2016) at a parliamentary select committee hearing on Asians.The kingdom’s...
View ArticlePROGRESS TO SWAZI DEMOCRACY?
The Swaziland High Court ruled parts of Suppression of Terrorism and the Sedition and Subversive Activities Acts unconstitutional, paving the way, prodemocracy activists hoped, for some form of...
View ArticleUNIVERSITY LECTURERS ‘NOT QUALIFIED’
Students at the university in Swaziland where King Mswati III said he would set up a university of transformation for the whole SADC region have protested to the Swazi Government that its lecturers are...
View ArticleSWAZI HEALTH OFFICERS’ STRIKE THREAT
Environmental health officers in Swaziland are threatening to strike if they do not get a salary review and increased overtime payments.About 20 officers from across Swaziland delivered a petition to...
View ArticleLIMITED SUPPORT FROM EU ON TRADE
More than four in ten Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) did not support Swaziland’s inclusion in a trade partnership deal.European Union Ambassador to Swaziland Nicola Bellomo said many MEPs...
View ArticlePOLICE FIRE GUNSHOTS AT STUDENTS
Police fired gunshots at protesting students at the university in Swaziland that is set to house King Mswati III’s proposed ‘SADC University of Transformation’.At least four students had ‘serious...
View ArticleGOVT ‘SLOW TO GIVE INFORMATION’
Swaziland’s foremost media freedom pressure group has called on the Swazi Government to implement a Freedom of Information Act.It came after a survey revealed that Swaziland’s Government and agencies...
View ArticleVOTERS SNUB SWAZI ELECTION
Only four in ten of the people entitled to vote in Swaziland’s national election did so. The percentage turnout was lower than the previous election in 2008.The Elections and Boundaries Commission...
View ArticleMPs PROBE UNIVERSITY STANDARDS
The university in Swaziland that King Mswati III says will host his new University of Transformation is to be investigated by members of parliament after students complained lecturers were unqualified...
View ArticleSWAZI KING’S PAPER ATTACKS ASIANS
The Swazi Observer, a newspaper in effect owned by Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III, is running a campaign of misinformation against Asians in the kingdom. It has now claimed that 600,000...
View ArticleSWAZI NURSES READY TO STRIKE
Nurses in Swaziland gave the Government a seven-day strike ultimatum on Wednesday (19 October 2016) as they protested for more jobs to be created.The Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union (SWADNU) said...
View ArticleMORE MEN VICTIMS OF GENDER ABUSE
More Swazi men are seeking help from a gender-based-violence NGO.Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA) reported that in August 2016, 60 men attended its clinics. This compared to 86 women...
View ArticleANTI-ASIAN FEELINGS SPREADING
Traditional authorities in the Ngcina Chiefdom in Swaziland have ordered a man to close his business and leave the area because he is Asian. The move is the latest in a number of’ ‘anti-Asian’...
View ArticleFOUR IN TEN YOUTH UNEMPLOYED
More than four in ten Swazi youth are unemployed, new figures show.That makes 280,000, or 42.6 percent, of the 668,000 people who are aged between 18 and 24.The statistics also show that 756,000 out of...
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