Swaziland’s Minister
of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Sibusiso Shongwe said God operates in the
same way as King Mswati III – ‘in a monarchical way’.
He also said
King Mswati III, who rules Swaziland as sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute
monarch, was chosen by God.
‘It is God’s
desire to see the people of Swaziland loving their monarchy. This is because
God himself operates in a monarchical way,’ he told officers during a tour of
the correctional facility’s criminal mental health centre and the correctional
college in Matsapha on Friday (10 January 2014).
‘The reason
God’s eye is closer to the Kingdom of Swaziland is that we are a platform of
showing the world how the Almighty God wants the world to be ruled,’ he said.
Shongwe was not
elected to government; like all ministers in Swaziland he was appointed by the
King. The Observer on Saturday, a newspaper in effect owned by the King, reported,
‘He said he was a minister because of the King, hence he would like to
represent him everywhere he goes.’
Shongwe asked
officers from the correctional service to give themselves to God in order to be
able to do their work without a problem, the newspaper reported. He said
officers must be born again in order to deal with convicts. He said they must
always remember that breaking the law is demonic.
It is not only
Shongwe who believes King Mswati is chosen by God: the King himself thinks the
same.
In
August 2013 King Mswati said he had received a vision from God in which he
was told to change the name of the undemocratic political system of tinkhundla
that governs the kingdom to ‘monarchical democracy’.
This was not the
first time King Mswati said he had received
a vision from God. In 2011, the King said God spoke to him through a TV
remote control.
It happened at
the Lozitha Palace, near Mbabane. At the time the king told his subjects about
his ‘miraculous experience’.
The Times of Swaziland, the kingdom’s only
independent daily newspaper, reported in October 2011, ‘His Majesty saw a
miracle yesterday when he was preparing a sermon [to preach to a group of
evangelical Christians.] The King said a remote control lay at the centre of a
coffee table but something mysteriously brought it down.
‘He said there was no person or wind that could have brought it down. The King said he realised that God was with him. It was Him who brought the remote control down.’
‘He said there was no person or wind that could have brought it down. The King said he realised that God was with him. It was Him who brought the remote control down.’
Reverend Jonas
Dlamini, one of the king’s preachers, said, ‘The king preached to us. He was
filled with the light of the Lord when he told us that God had given him a sign
when he was getting ready to meet us. He said a TV remote on his table
dropped to the floor with no one touching it and that is how he knew God was
communicating with him.’
It is common for
apologists of King Mswati who controls a kingdom where political parties are
banned and seven in ten of his 1.3 million subjects live in abject poverty,
while he has 13 palaces and a fortune once estimated by Forbes Magazine to be US$200 million, to say he is chosen by God. The
Swazi Observer newspaper, a
stablemate of the Observer on Saturday, in October 2009 told its
readers in an article written by the then editor-in-chief Musa Ndlangamandla: King
Mswati III is ‘ordained
by God to lead his people’.
See also
KING BELIEVES HE
IS CHOSEN BY GOD
http://swazimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/king-believes-he-is-chosen-by-god.html
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