The documentary, Swaziland: Africa’s last Absolute Monarchy,
which reports on human rights abuses in the kingdom is to be aired on national
Danish television channel DR2 on Sunday 2 August 2015 at 11 pm, local time.
It was written and directed by Tom Heinemann and Produced
by Borgen & Heinemann (2015).
A summary of the documentary
released by the programme makers says, ‘Bheki Dlamini is a young, political
activist from the tiny African country, Swaziland. He spent almost four years in
imprisonment for something that he didn’t do. Shortly after his release he had
to flee his country.’
This was because he wore a
t-shirt demanding democracy and political reforms – which is considered an act
of terrorism in the kingdom ruled by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last
absolute monarch.
The programme makers say Bheki is just one out of many others that are harassed, tortured and jailed, including editors, lawyers and political opponents of the King’s regime.
The programme makers say Bheki is just one out of many others that are harassed, tortured and jailed, including editors, lawyers and political opponents of the King’s regime.
Swaziland – Africa’s last absolute monarchy premièred in May 2015 in Copenhagen. It has been
submitted to several film festivals, including the Al Jazeera International
Documentary Film Festival and Movies That Matter.
Bheki Dlamini is the President of the
Swaziland Youth Congress, the youth wing of PUDEMO. He currently lives in exile
at a secret location in South Africa. The Swazi police’s torture of him by way
of “severe beatings and suffocation torture” was mentioned in Amnesty
International’s 2011 Annual Report.
Tom Heinemann has won the Danish Outstanding
Investigative Journalist of the year award twice, and has been runner up for
Journalist of the year in Denmark three times. In 2007 he won the Prix Italia
in the current affairs selection.
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