KING’S MEETING WITH ZUMA IS OFF

News from South Africa today (Monday 13 June 2011) is that King Mswati III failed to meet with President Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg. The king wanted South Africa to give Swaziland a E10 billion (US$1,47 billion) loan to bail his kingdom out of its financial mess. It is not clear when (if) the meeting will go ahead.