| Swaziland’s King Mswati III has appointed a new prime minister who shares the absolute monarch’s distrust of democracy campaigners, the Associated Press reported today (16 October 2008).
King Mswati III announced Sibusiso Barnabus Dlamini
Dlamini, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official, then gave a speech denouncing those calling for democratic reform as ‘a threat to the peace and stability of the country’.
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Constitutional lawyer Muzi Masuku says Dlamini is little more than ‘an extension’ of the king.
Trade unions and pro-democracy groups in Swaziland see the parliament and prime minister as rubber stamps of the king.
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