Swazi student leader denied scholarship for being
politically active?
Stiffkitten blog August 12, 2012
It would seem that Swazi student leader Maxwell Dlamini
is being punished doubly for having actively engaged himself in Swaziland’s
democratic movement. Maxwell, a commerce student, was detained and tortured by
Swazi police and sat his last exams from prison where he was remanded until
February accused of possession of explosives. Now he is in effect being denied
the possibility to continue his studies.
“I have been readmitted at the university. The only
problem I currently face now is the issue of scholarship. I did apply for
government scholarship a month ago and still I haven’t received any
correspondence. I have also did make a follow up but still there have been no
correspondence,” Maxwell Dlamini told Africa Contact yesterday [August 11].
“What is surprising though is that all those whom I am
supposed to be in class with and those I applied with had been successfully
given scholarships. It’s pretty bad that lectures are beginning this week while
am still unofficial registered as a student because I haven’t yet paid the
tuition and book fees.”
Maxwell is set to return to court on Friday the 17th of
August in a court case that has failed to produce any concrete evidence against
him in over a year.
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