Kenworthy News Media
September 3, 2013
Maxwell gets
student activist award
Swazi activist and student leader, Maxwell Dlamini, has been given the All-Africa Students’ Union’s 2013 Student Activist Award,
for “the role he has played in Swazi and
African students’ movements,” writes Kenworthy News Media.
“The Union truly appreciates your many years of
dedication and commitment to promoting students welfare and development. You
truly epitomize the spirit of this award,” the All-Africa Students’ Union wrote
in the awards letter sent to Maxwell.
“I feel humbled and honoured to receive such a
prestigious award in recognition of our many years of dedication and commitment
to promoting student’s welfare and development”, Maxwell Dlamini said in a
statement.
“I dedicate this award to the ordinary students who have
been denied scholarships, without decent jobs, without education and all those
who have been injured, butchered, beaten, arrested, tortured and forced into
exile while we were fighting for democracy and students rights. Our struggle is
noble and will be victorious despite the setbacks. and brutal repression we
receive from the state.”
There was a ceremony to go with the award in Accra,
Ghana, on Monday, but Maxwell could not attend because the police have his
passport as part of his strict bail terms.
Maxwell Dlamini was detained in 2011, together with
fellow activist Musa Ngubeni, on charges of contravening Swaziland’s Explosives
Act. Both Maxwell and Musa claim that they were tortured during their detainment
in 2011. They were both released on bail in February 2012, although Maxwell was
both arrested and released on bail yet again in 2013.
See also
UK SUPPORTS
JAILED SWAZI ACTIVIST
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